Motorcycle visors come to mind. And, you know, all those other ones mentioned in TFS. And white suits.
As to motorcycle visors, super-hydrophilic may be the way to go. When a droplet hits the surface it's instantly spread in an even layer over the whole area, no beading.
I wonder if there is any way to statically guess the number of planets in the Goldilocks zone, the approximate distance from a star for liquid water to be possible.
Is Europa in the Goldilocks zone? The possibilities for life may be much wider than we guess.
Australia got rid of 1 cent and 2 cent coins, and 5 cent coins are looking endangered. Nobody cares.
Retailers round the final total at the till, not the individual item prices, so unless you're just buying just one item your bill is just as likely to go down as up.(by a whole 2 cents maximum). Electronic transactions are not rounded.
We also replaced one dollar and two dollar notes with coins, again with no dramas.
Especially those bus lanes that sit empty while everyone else is practically parked and spewing extra exhaust the whole time.
There's plenty of evidence that traffic expands to fill the roads available to it. If bus lanes were released to the public, give it a few months and those lanes would be chock full of traffic just like the other roads, and it would all be a giant parking lot, just like before.
I don't know if you'd describe it as a flop, exactly, but it certainly lacked the massive uptake of DVDs/CDs over VHS/Cassettes. In my experience, most people didn't rush out and buy a Bluray player; they got one the next time they were going to upgrade anyway - with their console, or built into their TV, or occasionally replacing their standalone DVD player. I still know many people (including myself) who just use DVDs.
The high-res transition was very much an iterative update. People had too much invested in the prior format.
The initial rip-off cost of the disks didn't help either. I've read that a Blue Ray costs about 25% more to make than a DVD, excluding any extra authoring costs. And DVDs are sometimes given away as promotional items by my local newspaper.
It's fun to bash bureaucrats, but every now and then it's necessary to remember why they're there.
A few years back a co-worker was griping about the septic inspector, and why there was this guy whose whole job was to occasionally drop by and watch the septic system getting put in. The unfortunate reason is that without that inspector occasionally dropping by unannounced, some unscrupulous contractor would cut corners and skip the installation entirely. They'd just dig a hole, throw in a small load of gravel, run the pipe into it, cover it, and leave - calling it a "septic system". The homeowner would get stuck with the mess - 5 or 10 years down the road. By that time the contractor would have dissolved the company, reorganized as a new company, and still be pulling the same trick.
I don't know how this applies to solar panels, but I'm sure that there's plenty of room for abuse by unscrupulous contractors and suppliers.
The problem is not that they're regulating it, but doing it badly. Also, many of these authorities are using inspection as a source of income, instead of just going for fair cost recovery. Gouging.
For the suspicious ones, a further stage of analysis can be performed by running them in Safe Run — an isolated sandbox environment from which maliciousness can't contaminate the computer's environment proper.
He doesn't know his own product. Safe Run was dumped in the latest version of KIS and changed to Safe Money, which sandboxes your browser only, for connection to specific white-listed web sites such as banks.
clamAV is a scanner, analysing files. the google service is afaik like a dns rbl... it just checks for known bad hashes. Flip a bit, and it won't recognize the virus.
Users aren't concerned with how it works, only if it works, and to some extent how much it costs. The Google service may actually be harmful by giving a false sense of security to noob users.
It detects 15% of malicious apps, which would otherwise go undetected. Thats better than not having this service.
But looking at the alternatives (from TFA) even lowly ClamAV detected 51%, and two of the commercial programs detected 100% of the malware samples (looks like Avast and Symantec).
If you're beaten by ClamAV, well man, that is embarrassing. Oh, and Clam is free as well.
Like, if someone broke his legs and build him a joystick wheelchair and posted the video, oh I am sure he would be oh so thankful.
I can see both sides. Without his wings being clipped he would never be allowed outside, and escape would be a constant worry. Caged birds are dead meat on the outside.
Probably some of the cheapest physical security measures are to keep bushes and plants trimmed so there is no where to hide while breaking in. Also eliminating dark areas with motion detector activated flood lights.
. . . and gravel pathways leading up to and around the house so that they go crunch, crunch when someone walks on them.
I'll be keeping MSE installed. I've found many of the free AV programs to be cumbersome and slow, and quite frankly annoying about 'protecting my system' and 'staying updated'.
Stay out of shady places and avoid file sharing except when necessary and it won't be a problem.
Kind of like not raw dogging dirty hookers freely, common sense behavior if you don't want to catch the Cannasyphiliaids virus.
Kaspersky has saved me from three drive-by downloads, and two of them were from legitimate charity sites which didn't have decent security in place. So much for file sharing, dodgy places and dirty hookers.
Nowhere on the web can be considered completely safe
I use the commercial Kaspersky which always comes out near the top, if not always best in AV tests, but why has no-one mentioned Noscript?
I suspect it has saved me from all sorts of nastiness that my AV program never even got a chance to see.
Would the manufacturers really incur the extra cost and extra power consumption of another component for this reason alone? I'm sure there must be more benefit than a couple seconds gain on GPS acquisition.
I've heard barometric sensors may be used in currently-experimental navigation apps inside buildings, such as large shopping malls.
The air pressure tells you which floor you're on and other methods, such as triangulation of signal strength from wi-fi sources, give your X,Y location.
It sounds like they are into the whole casual thing, which if he doesn't wanna get more PS3 games I'd say put together one of those E350 AMD DVD player sized PCs together, slap on Steam, and let the kids go to town.
The AMD APUs use the system memory for video, so if you go that way, get the fastest memory the motherboard can handle (and make sure it's properly recognized in the BIOS). This really does make a difference in maximum frame rates, and the extra cost is peanuts.
BTW, if you ever need to determine if your electric fence is switched on or not, without putting your tongue across it, a portable AM radio tuned between stations and held close to the wires will enable the HV pulses to be heard.
As with cattle fences this would be a pulsed current, probably one or two pulses per second. They charge a capacitor to the peak voltage then dump it into a step-up transformer, reminiscent of old capacitor-discharge ignition systems for cars.
This enables the number of Joules and the shape and duration of the pulse to be controlled, reducing the chance of fatalities, and so avoiding legal problems.
As to gloves, 5KV to 7KV would be enough to break down many cheaper types of insulating gloves, so thieves may still be in for a surprise.
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Motorcycle visors come to mind. And, you know, all those other ones mentioned in TFS. And white suits.
As to motorcycle visors, super-hydrophilic may be the way to go. When a droplet hits the surface it's instantly spread in an even layer over the whole area, no beading.
Did you notice his final line in TFA
"Soon i will publish OAuth bypass in Facebook.com, Cya Next time!,"
Real or not? That would really stir things up.
I wonder if there is any way to statically guess the number of planets in the Goldilocks zone, the approximate distance from a star for liquid water to be possible.
Is Europa in the Goldilocks zone? The possibilities for life may be much wider than we guess.
Australia got rid of 1 cent and 2 cent coins, and 5 cent coins are looking endangered. Nobody cares.
Retailers round the final total at the till, not the individual item prices, so unless you're just buying just one item your bill is just as likely to go down as up.(by a whole 2 cents maximum). Electronic transactions are not rounded.
We also replaced one dollar and two dollar notes with coins, again with no dramas.
Especially those bus lanes that sit empty while everyone else is practically parked and spewing extra exhaust the whole time.
There's plenty of evidence that traffic expands to fill the roads available to it. If bus lanes were released to the public, give it a few months and those lanes would be chock full of traffic just like the other roads, and it would all be a giant parking lot, just like before.
Yes, and it's a good thing that buses and cabs don't produce exhaust!
The buses in my city are mostly powered by LPG gas and the cabs are usually gas powered or electric hybrids.
It doesn't do much for CO2 emissions, but public transport does reduce local particulates.
I don't know if you'd describe it as a flop, exactly, but it certainly lacked the massive uptake of DVDs/CDs over VHS/Cassettes. In my experience, most people didn't rush out and buy a Bluray player; they got one the next time they were going to upgrade anyway - with their console, or built into their TV, or occasionally replacing their standalone DVD player. I still know many people (including myself) who just use DVDs.
The high-res transition was very much an iterative update. People had too much invested in the prior format.
The initial rip-off cost of the disks didn't help either. I've read that a Blue Ray costs about 25% more to make than a DVD, excluding any extra authoring costs. And DVDs are sometimes given away as promotional items by my local newspaper.
It's fun to bash bureaucrats, but every now and then it's necessary to remember why they're there.
A few years back a co-worker was griping about the septic inspector, and why there was this guy whose whole job was to occasionally drop by and watch the septic system getting put in. The unfortunate reason is that without that inspector occasionally dropping by unannounced, some unscrupulous contractor would cut corners and skip the installation entirely. They'd just dig a hole, throw in a small load of gravel, run the pipe into it, cover it, and leave - calling it a "septic system". The homeowner would get stuck with the mess - 5 or 10 years down the road. By that time the contractor would have dissolved the company, reorganized as a new company, and still be pulling the same trick.
I don't know how this applies to solar panels, but I'm sure that there's plenty of room for abuse by unscrupulous contractors and suppliers.
The problem is not that they're regulating it, but doing it badly. Also, many of these authorities are using inspection as a source of income, instead of just going for fair cost recovery. Gouging.
For the suspicious ones, a further stage of analysis can be performed by running them in Safe Run — an isolated sandbox environment from which maliciousness can't contaminate the computer's environment proper.
He doesn't know his own product. Safe Run was dumped in the latest version of KIS and changed to Safe Money, which sandboxes your browser only, for connection to specific white-listed web sites such as banks.
Looks like back to Sandboxie
http://www.sandboxie.com/index.php?DownloadSandboxie
clamAV is a scanner, analysing files. the google service is afaik like a dns rbl ... it just checks for known bad hashes. Flip a bit, and it won't recognize the virus.
Users aren't concerned with how it works, only if it works, and to some extent how much it costs. The Google service may actually be harmful by giving a false sense of security to noob users.
It detects 15% of malicious apps, which would otherwise go undetected. Thats better than not having this service.
But looking at the alternatives (from TFA) even lowly ClamAV detected 51%, and two of the commercial programs detected 100% of the malware samples (looks like Avast and Symantec).
If you're beaten by ClamAV, well man, that is embarrassing. Oh, and Clam is free as well.
Like, if someone broke his legs and build him a joystick wheelchair and posted the video, oh I am sure he would be oh so thankful.
I can see both sides. Without his wings being clipped he would never be allowed outside, and escape would be a constant worry. Caged birds are dead meat on the outside.
Probably some of the cheapest physical security measures are to keep bushes and plants trimmed so there is no where to hide while breaking in. Also eliminating dark areas with motion detector activated flood lights.
. . . and gravel pathways leading up to and around the house so that they go crunch, crunch when someone walks on them.
... for a country whose laws deliberately shield trillions of dollars from the tax agencies of other nations.
Kill 1 man and you're a murderer. Kill a million and you're a conqueror.
Hide 1 dollar and you're a tax evader. Hide a million and you're a super PAC.
Fixed that for you.
do they have a capital punishment law for treason over there?
No, they have to send them to the USA for that.
Or arrange for the Israelis to have them assassinated.
How do you handle logins and passwords to various sites?
KeePass, plus the KeeFox addon to do the log-ins. Or any of the other password managers if you don't like that combination.
KeeFox detects the login page about 80% of the time in my case, and Autotype in KeePass works when KeeFox doesn't.
The recycling mark was a dead giveaway.
I'll be keeping MSE installed. I've found many of the free AV programs to be cumbersome and slow, and quite frankly annoying about 'protecting my system' and 'staying updated'. Stay out of shady places and avoid file sharing except when necessary and it won't be a problem. Kind of like not raw dogging dirty hookers freely, common sense behavior if you don't want to catch the Cannasyphiliaids virus.
Kaspersky has saved me from three drive-by downloads, and two of them were from legitimate charity sites which didn't have decent security in place. So much for file sharing, dodgy places and dirty hookers.
Nowhere on the web can be considered completely safe
I use the commercial Kaspersky which always comes out near the top, if not always best in AV tests, but why has no-one mentioned Noscript? I suspect it has saved me from all sorts of nastiness that my AV program never even got a chance to see.
It regularly detects my mouse driver as malware and disables it. I have to unplug the mouse and move USB ports before I can use the mouse again.
Which part of "Microsoft Product" did I not understand?
Sigh...
Regularly? Definition of a slow learner.
Would the manufacturers really incur the extra cost and extra power consumption of another component for this reason alone? I'm sure there must be more benefit than a couple seconds gain on GPS acquisition.
I've heard barometric sensors may be used in currently-experimental navigation apps inside buildings, such as large shopping malls.
The air pressure tells you which floor you're on and other methods, such as triangulation of signal strength from wi-fi sources, give your X,Y location.
It sounds like they are into the whole casual thing, which if he doesn't wanna get more PS3 games I'd say put together one of those E350 AMD DVD player sized PCs together, slap on Steam, and let the kids go to town.
The AMD APUs use the system memory for video, so if you go that way, get the fastest memory the motherboard can handle (and make sure it's properly recognized in the BIOS). This really does make a difference in maximum frame rates, and the extra cost is peanuts.
BTW, if you ever need to determine if your electric fence is switched on or not, without putting your tongue across it, a portable AM radio tuned between stations and held close to the wires will enable the HV pulses to be heard.
As with cattle fences this would be a pulsed current, probably one or two pulses per second. They charge a capacitor to the peak voltage then dump it into a step-up transformer, reminiscent of old capacitor-discharge ignition systems for cars.
This enables the number of Joules and the shape and duration of the pulse to be controlled, reducing the chance of fatalities, and so avoiding legal problems.
As to gloves, 5KV to 7KV would be enough to break down many cheaper types of insulating gloves, so thieves may still be in for a surprise.
Make sure you have a full, offsite, verified backup that ISN'T under the control of Bob, just in case he takes the news badly. ;)