The link below is a transcript from an Australian ABC network science show in 2005, Catalyst.
Professor Ric Pashley found he could make oil and water mix, and keep the result for more than a year in a sealed container without them separating, simply by getting rid of dissolved gases in the water.
Acrobat has a built in redaction mechanism, as of 3 years ago. It isn't just a black bar over text which is how some places used to do redactions... it actually destroys all what is under it, be it text or graphics. Once the document is resaved, the changes are permanent (no undo available, etc.)
There is just no excuse for improper redactions. It is built into Acrobat, as well as Wordperfect. Word, you install an add-on so you get non-undoable black boxes where the juicy info used to be.
Nitro PDF Pro ($99) and and the paid version of Foxit also do redaction, for cheaper than Adobe.
Lets see... Firefox changes release schedule, and in doing so screws up addons and creates irate IT staff. Firefox usage decline accelerates.
Yep, we know for sure that pissing off your users has nothing to do with dropping market share!
It looks like the outrage is finally getting through to Mozilla. They are talking about introducing a 30 month Extended Support Release (ESR) version, like Ubuntu and their LTS system.
for those to lazy to follow the link:
"..has previously been investigated for hosting subdomains responsible for delivering MacDefender, a type of scareware that infects Apple’s operating system. Also, in May 2011, Google temporarily blocked subdomains hosted by the cz.cc domain from its search results after it discovered it was hosting malware.."
So much so that they passed a law that retroactively allows the USA to draft any eligible male who might have moved to Canada up to 10 years prior.
You hear that? That means when shit starts hitting the fan and you decide to leave, until 10 years pass by they can still force Canada to return you for active draft.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finlandization
Australia is in the same position. As much American backside as our government can kiss.
At all companies I have been there were always smaller or larger events where there was almost unlimited amounts of alcohol available for free. The managers almost always went home early, specifically so they would NOT see what was going on and nobody was to be held accountable, because the boss saw stuff.
In Australia, and I suspect many other places, that wouldn't save them. If the company supplied the booze and the venue, they are legally responsible for whatever went on, whether sexual harassment, accidents due to alcohol, etc.
Speaking of bedbugs, I'm surprised we haven't had an Ask Slashdot article on how to get rid of these damn things. I've personally run into these in hotels and other people's apartment complexes (they migrate between units through the walls). Nasty little fuckers. And they stink when you crush em. Next time you're bored, take a trip to a local apartment complex and count the number of mattresses and box springs in the dump areas. All I know is this. If you're unemployed, there's a shit-ton of money to be made here in cleanup and mitigation. If there was ever a parasite to be paranoid and freaked out over, it's bedbugs. Good news, they're not known to spread diseases. Most likely because of their feeding and moulting cycles.
The above link refers to a $6.99 bug trap (4 needed) that you stand the legs of your bed into. It contains a non-toxic glue that stops them making it up from the carpet onto your bed. The traps need to be replaced once a year or so..
To disinfect a mattress or room, use heat. Either just seal the room and crank up a heater (50-60 Celsius for 6 hours or so), or disinfect the mattress by itself. Wrap the mattress in black plastic or a black plastic bag, then put that in an outer clear plastic bag, seal it and leave it in bright sun light all day. The plastic will act as a mini-green house and cook the hell out of the little f'ckers.
I've also seen multiple reports of dogs detecting early-stage malignant melanomas (virulent skin cancer) on their owners.
The person finds the dog is suddenly licking a particular spot on their arm or leg. They go to the doctor and find themselves being sent to surgery ASAP.
Also, not quite colon cancer, but there have been successful tests on the detection of bladder cancer by a dog sniffing urine samples. I hope they give that doggie some extra treats.
One interesting thing about TFA is that it is suggesting that powerful enough systems might be able purely through simulation to predict what new compounds are worth investigating.
Isn't this what grid computing projects on BOINC, such as Rosetta@Home and various World Community Grid projects are already doing?
It's not just bash google day, of course. A short list of companies that get bashed a lot on slashdot:
[deletions]
Companies that receive very little hate on slashdot:
Samsung I guess?
I've just put my Samsung Laser MFP in for repair for the second time in a year (for real). It's on a home system and is rarely even turned on. The bastards!
But wait until you try and do something about the world. Maybe you'll run for political office. Or want to help out at child care center down the street. Wanted that teacher's license? Maybe someone will find out that people that google Cheerios, fucktards, and pantyhose are statistically proven to be terrorists and need to be rounded up and vilified. They'll look around for a while until that one row in one table in one database outs you. Then you're toast.
Yeah, I recently saw where a young American female teacher was sacked for posting a photo of herself just HOLDING a beer while at a tour at a brewery in Ireland (I think), while she was on holidays.
She wasn't drinking it, she wasn't drunk, and she was fully dressed and presentable. Of course this was in one of the retard southern states.
2) Is easily disproved by looking at countries where small and light cars are already the norm. In the UK for example, the death rate from car accidents was 5.4 per 100,000 population, while in the US it was 14.3 per 100,000 population
Supposed world mortality rates per capita for 2004.
Phase change applications were fairly commonly installed in houses back in the late 70s. Usually a liquid to gel phase change but some were liquid to solid.
The problem then as now, was finding something that changed at the desired temperature, because any time you have to concentrate the heat to reach the the temperature where phase change occurred you lost much if not all of advantage of using these materials. (You essentially ended up running a air-source heat pump to concentrate hot house air into the material).
I think the second one looks cheap and interesting. They use a micro-encapsulated tailored wax which can be mixed into plaster wall boards, giving them the thermal capacity of a brick wall.
If you think that 99% of people use "smart phones", you're grossly out of touch with reality. "Smart phones" are grossly expensive status symbols. The only people I know who use "smart phones" have them to impress other people. I run a multi-million dollar business just fine with a laptop and a "dumb" cell phone.
In Australia in 2010, 43% of phones sales were smart phones. The prediction for 2011 is 70% of sales will be smart phones..
Did they also mention that a 21" TV (which was mostly bezel...) in the 50s cost closer to two month's salary? Compare that to the two days salary for a 21" viewable screen you'd pay today...
Because of the 16:9 form factor of modern widescreen TVs and the fact that a TV's size is measured on the diagonal, a modern 21" TV is only the same height as a 17.1" old-style 4:3 ratio CRT TV.
This kind of news is absolutely huge for a TG girl.
In a few years time, it might become possible to get a complete vagina/womb/ovaries set even if you were not born a genetic female.
Totally awesome...
Vagina/womb perhaps, but ovaries are a big ask. You should have saved some sperm for later if you wanted children that were genetically your own.
Of the people who I've talked to with RSA tokens, most have said they're now actively planning a migration off of RSA tokens.
It isn't that they were hacked. Shit happens, even to the best of them. It was the lack of information and lack of transparency by RSA (EMC) on the whole event. They were wrong, and now the price they are going to pay is not only replacing everyone's tokens, but a loss of trust and hence future business.
I don't think the worst thing is that they were hacked, I think the real incompetence is having the seeds stored on a public facing system, ready to be stolen if someone did get in.
A company of their stature should have known to air-gap this kind of information. I think this is equivalent to those web sites that have their customers passwords stored in plain text.
I personally don't see the appeal of getting rid of the penny. My guess is retailers and so forth will simply price things such that you'll always have to give slightly more so that they can get the extra nickel out of you instead of leaving it at a price where customers would be at an advantage. To those who say "so? it's just a nickel!", count to 100 and see how many times you said a multiple of 5. Adds up quick doesn't it?
In Australia the final total on the tab is rounded up or down. If you buy a hundred items the maximum rounding correction only 2 cents.
The most annoying tendency is for the notes not to lie flat. The first generation of $5 notes were particularly bad. I was working in retail just after they were introduced and it was a real chore to keep them from curling up in the till and escaping from under the spring clip thingy. The technology has improved a lot, but they're still a bit curly.
According to an old article in the Australian Financial Review, the notes were manufactured in a hollow six storey building in Canberra. They blew a giant plastic bubble then slit it down to get the film used in final production. It was done this way to ensure even film thickness. I wonder if this had any connection with the notes' propensity to curl?
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The link below is a transcript from an Australian ABC network science show in 2005, Catalyst.
Professor Ric Pashley found he could make oil and water mix, and keep the result for more than a year in a sealed container without them separating, simply by getting rid of dissolved gases in the water.
He demonstrated this in his kitchen!
http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/s1314925.htm
Really guys. Maybe you should outsource this.
. . . to the lowest bidder, which will be a company in China.
Acrobat has a built in redaction mechanism, as of 3 years ago. It isn't just a black bar over text which is how some places used to do redactions... it actually destroys all what is under it, be it text or graphics. Once the document is resaved, the changes are permanent (no undo available, etc.)
There is just no excuse for improper redactions. It is built into Acrobat, as well as Wordperfect. Word, you install an add-on so you get non-undoable black boxes where the juicy info used to be.
Nitro PDF Pro ($99) and and the paid version of Foxit also do redaction, for cheaper than Adobe.
* Drill a hole, pour in acid. ** Pro: Fast, cheap ** Con: Requires you to have access to an acid
Probably even just vinegar or brine or a little battery acid poured in would do the trick. I'd expect the surface would be quickly corroded
Lets see... Firefox changes release schedule, and in doing so screws up addons and creates irate IT staff. Firefox usage decline accelerates.
Yep, we know for sure that pissing off your users has nothing to do with dropping market share!
It looks like the outrage is finally getting through to Mozilla. They are talking about introducing a 30 month Extended Support Release (ESR) version, like Ubuntu and their LTS system.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2393462,00.asp
for those to lazy to follow the link: ". .has previously been investigated for hosting subdomains responsible for delivering MacDefender, a type of scareware that infects Apple’s operating system. Also, in May 2011, Google temporarily blocked subdomains hosted by the cz.cc domain from its search results after it discovered it was hosting malware. ."
. . . and kiddie porn.
"If it is documented that they routinely defrauded people for money, why are they not in jail?"
Jurisdiction.
. . . and bribes.
Don't forget Canada is friendly to the US.
So much so that they passed a law that retroactively allows the USA to draft any eligible male who might have moved to Canada up to 10 years prior.
You hear that? That means when shit starts hitting the fan and you decide to leave, until 10 years pass by they can still force Canada to return you for active draft.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finlandization
Australia is in the same position. As much American backside as our government can kiss.
At all companies I have been there were always smaller or larger events where there was almost unlimited amounts of alcohol available for free. The managers almost always went home early, specifically so they would NOT see what was going on and nobody was to be held accountable, because the boss saw stuff.
In Australia, and I suspect many other places, that wouldn't save them. If the company supplied the booze and the venue, they are legally responsible for whatever went on, whether sexual harassment, accidents due to alcohol, etc.
Speaking of bedbugs, I'm surprised we haven't had an Ask Slashdot article on how to get rid of these damn things. I've personally run into these in hotels and other people's apartment complexes (they migrate between units through the walls). Nasty little fuckers. And they stink when you crush em. Next time you're bored, take a trip to a local apartment complex and count the number of mattresses and box springs in the dump areas. All I know is this. If you're unemployed, there's a shit-ton of money to be made here in cleanup and mitigation. If there was ever a parasite to be paranoid and freaked out over, it's bedbugs. Good news, they're not known to spread diseases. Most likely because of their feeding and moulting cycles.
http://www.usbedbugs.com/Bed-Bug-Barrier-Passive-Monitor-Glue-Trap_p_42.html
The above link refers to a $6.99 bug trap (4 needed) that you stand the legs of your bed into. It contains a non-toxic glue that stops them making it up from the carpet onto your bed. The traps need to be replaced once a year or so..
To disinfect a mattress or room, use heat. Either just seal the room and crank up a heater (50-60 Celsius for 6 hours or so), or disinfect the mattress by itself. Wrap the mattress in black plastic or a black plastic bag, then put that in an outer clear plastic bag, seal it and leave it in bright sun light all day. The plastic will act as a mini-green house and cook the hell out of the little f'ckers.
I've also seen multiple reports of dogs detecting early-stage malignant melanomas (virulent skin cancer) on their owners.
The person finds the dog is suddenly licking a particular spot on their arm or leg. They go to the doctor and find themselves being sent to surgery ASAP.
Also, not quite colon cancer, but there have been successful tests on the detection of bladder cancer by a dog sniffing urine samples. I hope they give that doggie some extra treats.
One interesting thing about TFA is that it is suggesting that powerful enough systems might be able purely through simulation to predict what new compounds are worth investigating.
Isn't this what grid computing projects on BOINC, such as Rosetta@Home and various World Community Grid projects are already doing?
Jeez, we already know how to do hydrogen fuel cells. Come on nature, give us some info we can USE for once.
And at what temperature do human-made fuel cells work?
And what's the size of the smallest fuel cells we can make?
It's not just bash google day, of course. A short list of companies that get bashed a lot on slashdot:
[deletions]
Companies that receive very little hate on slashdot: Samsung I guess?
I've just put my Samsung Laser MFP in for repair for the second time in a year (for real). It's on a home system and is rarely even turned on. The bastards!
Well, seems you can cross Samsung off.
But wait until you try and do something about the world. Maybe you'll run for political office. Or want to help out at child care center down the street. Wanted that teacher's license? Maybe someone will find out that people that google Cheerios, fucktards, and pantyhose are statistically proven to be terrorists and need to be rounded up and vilified. They'll look around for a while until that one row in one table in one database outs you. Then you're toast.
Yeah, I recently saw where a young American female teacher was sacked for posting a photo of herself just HOLDING a beer while at a tour at a brewery in Ireland (I think), while she was on holidays.
She wasn't drinking it, she wasn't drunk, and she was fully dressed and presentable. Of course this was in one of the retard southern states.
2) Is easily disproved by looking at countries where small and light cars are already the norm. In the UK for example, the death rate from car accidents was 5.4 per 100,000 population, while in the US it was 14.3 per 100,000 population
Supposed world mortality rates per capita for 2004.
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/mor_mot_or_non_veh_acc_typ_of_veh_uns_percap-accident-type-unspecified-per-capita
Nothing new here.
Phase change applications were fairly commonly installed in houses back in the late 70s. Usually a liquid to gel phase change but some were liquid to solid.
The problem then as now, was finding something that changed at the desired temperature, because any time you have to concentrate the heat to reach the the temperature where phase change occurred you lost much if not all of advantage of using these materials. (You essentially ended up running a air-source heat pump to concentrate hot house air into the material).
Yeah, here's two more: http://www.gizmag.com/ravenskin-insulation-delays-heat-transfer/17056/ http://www.fraunhofer.de/en/research-topics/construction/microencapsulated.jsp
I think the second one looks cheap and interesting. They use a micro-encapsulated tailored wax which can be mixed into plaster wall boards, giving them the thermal capacity of a brick wall.
If you think that 99% of people use "smart phones", you're grossly out of touch with reality. "Smart phones" are grossly expensive status symbols. The only people I know who use "smart phones" have them to impress other people. I run a multi-million dollar business just fine with a laptop and a "dumb" cell phone.
In Australia in 2010, 43% of phones sales were smart phones. The prediction for 2011 is 70% of sales will be smart phones..
Smart phones are becoming the norm.
Did they also mention that a 21" TV (which was mostly bezel...) in the 50s cost closer to two month's salary? Compare that to the two days salary for a 21" viewable screen you'd pay today...
Because of the 16:9 form factor of modern widescreen TVs and the fact that a TV's size is measured on the diagonal, a modern 21" TV is only the same height as a 17.1" old-style 4:3 ratio CRT TV.
Tape is more practical for offsite for large amount of data. LTO 5 is 1.5TB raw, and if they made them bigger we would be buying them.
Apparently HP make a 3 TB tape, but at a higher cost per byte.
This kind of news is absolutely huge for a TG girl. In a few years time, it might become possible to get a complete vagina/womb/ovaries set even if you were not born a genetic female. Totally awesome...
Vagina/womb perhaps, but ovaries are a big ask. You should have saved some sperm for later if you wanted children that were genetically your own.
Of the people who I've talked to with RSA tokens, most have said they're now actively planning a migration off of RSA tokens.
It isn't that they were hacked. Shit happens, even to the best of them. It was the lack of information and lack of transparency by RSA (EMC) on the whole event. They were wrong, and now the price they are going to pay is not only replacing everyone's tokens, but a loss of trust and hence future business.
I don't think the worst thing is that they were hacked, I think the real incompetence is having the seeds stored on a public facing system, ready to be stolen if someone did get in.
A company of their stature should have known to air-gap this kind of information. I think this is equivalent to those web sites that have their customers passwords stored in plain text.
Twenty minutes a year amounts to about 3.27 seconds a day.
I personally don't see the appeal of getting rid of the penny. My guess is retailers and so forth will simply price things such that you'll always have to give slightly more so that they can get the extra nickel out of you instead of leaving it at a price where customers would be at an advantage. To those who say "so? it's just a nickel!", count to 100 and see how many times you said a multiple of 5. Adds up quick doesn't it?
In Australia the final total on the tab is rounded up or down. If you buy a hundred items the maximum rounding correction only 2 cents.
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The most annoying tendency is for the notes not to lie flat. The first generation of $5 notes were particularly bad. I was working in retail just after they were introduced and it was a real chore to keep them from curling up in the till and escaping from under the spring clip thingy. The technology has improved a lot, but they're still a bit curly.
According to an old article in the Australian Financial Review, the notes were manufactured in a hollow six storey building in Canberra. They blew a giant plastic bubble then slit it down to get the film used in final production. It was done this way to ensure even film thickness. I wonder if this had any connection with the notes' propensity to curl?