Smart criminals who can afford to build such buildings _own_ the people who control SWAT teams.
Re:Foie Gras is some nasty shit...
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"force feeding a goose until its liver basically explodes so that it's extra tasty."
You got to stop getting your info solely from the religious materials distributed by PETA et all. For groups like PETA and the ALF, hardly any science or evidence is involved. They're modern day cults with their Jihad.
Easy sell I guess as war seems so popular nowadays. You have war against foie gras, war against eating animals and so on.
Maybe some farms are cruel to their birds, but cruelty is not necessary (and some argue not even beneficial) for the production of good foie gras.
It sure seems like the geese are happily gorging themselves. Pigs!
My family (well ok my dad) used to have a pair of geese and they'll definitely peck you or worse if they weren't happy. Gave them away in the end. Maybe we should have made foie gras from them, but I suppose the convention is to not eat pets:).
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"Foie gras is comparable to chopping up an animal into serving size pieces - while it's still alive."
It's not comparable at all. The geese willingly go to get themselves stuffed with food (google). It might not be healthy for them, but whether they get fattened or not they're going to get slaughtered in the end anyway. The farm definitely won't want any of them to die prematurely either.
AFAIK, plenty of people willingly queue up to supersize their meals and themselves.
As for slaughterhouses being shut down, people should be asking why there's so much salmonella and e. coli about - it's because of really crappy practices. Telling people to cook their contaminated meat thoroughly so that it's safe to eat is avoiding the real issue on why there's so much "shit" in/on the meat (or even vegetables) in the first place. The regulators allow unsafe practices and shift the problem to the consumers.
AFAIK the bonobos also have sex with immature members of their group (google). Seems to work fine for them. I won't be surprised if dolphins and other animals do that too. It's probably just not suitable to show on the National Geographic channel;).
Anyway, "natural" is overrated.
Humans should use their big brains and figure out what is good overall and long term. That said the norms of cultures that have survived and _thrived_ for thousands of years should not be discarded overnight without a great deal of evidence. There are many different human cultures, and it is fairly obvious that some are crappier than others.
We need to start using our brains a lot more and not just do stuff because it is technologically possible. Society is not ready for a USD10K "kill everyone" bioweapon kit. And just because someone figures out a way to make a cheap gigawatt "infinitech" powerplant it doesn't mean everyone should have one before we figure a way of preventing/avoiding the entire world from glowing red hot from the excess heat.
"It seems like a good way to regulate the temperature of a water bath"
Not really. Your idea only makes sense if you did want to reduce the pressure for some other reason - selectively evaporate stuff - like in fractional distillation.
For temperature control, you use a thermometer/thermostat with feedback.
For example you can soft boil eggs in an oven. You just need to calibrate your oven well. Then if you set it to 65 degrees C and stick the eggs in for an hour, they still won't be hard boiled:).
What would be nice is an affordable home oven with aerogel insulation and a quick safe way for the oven to dump heat to lower temperatures fast and preferably evenly. But I guess why ovens remain inefficient is because the main target market for ovens are people living in colder climates. They don't care if heat "spills out" from the oven - it just makes the room "nice and warm". Believe me, in warmer/hotter places the extra heat is not so nice...
"Converting different blood types to O is fantastic"
There have been a fair number of people attempting to convert their blood type to XO positive[1] with varying degrees of success;).
[1] Seems my uncle is one of those few born with an XO+ blood type, which may explain his compensating by consuming beer, wine and other "soft" drinks regularly.
The one where if you are number 2 (AMD), you lose billions of dollars a year even though you: 1) produce decent products with near top of the line technology 2) price them reasonably 3) Keep improving them every year 4) Keep reinvesting _billions_ of money to keep yourself competitive
(It's similar in the memory industry and other tech industries as well).
I'm sure the "stupid" people in the medical industry are going to take his advice. Yeah, right.
And the people in the furniture industry who make crap chairs for high prices and "help" give millions back problems will actually start making comfortable chairs for reasonable prices that don't fall apart after less than 3 years. It's amazing how people are still making crappy chairs after thousands of years. Whereas there's hardly any market for 5MB hard drives anymore except maybe in some weird niche or for collectors.
The medical industry stuff isn't that easy, so I'll cut them a bit of slack (a bit only though, they still could be doing a lot better than they are now). But the furniture industry has a lot to answer for.
Anyway I think the IT industry has become the "glamor" industry for a lot of resources to be chucked at - brains, money etc.
In the 1950s-1970s it probably was aerospace, resulting in major advances like the first airliner, jumbo jet, concorde, mission to mars, space station, apollo etc. In comparison now we're just barely managing to stop the space shuttle from blowing up, and we're just talking about redoing the same old things all over again (Mars, Moon, space station, *yawn*).
That said the IT industry isn't doing that great either. We still haven't got AI after so many years of _crappy_ "research", we've spent a fair bit of time reimplementing UNIX, lots of code is still in crappy C. Douglas Engelbart must be very disappointed with the "advances" the IT software industry has made.
And where are those nuclear fusion power plants?
"You're all slackers!" he said, as he posted on slashdot;).
Even more so if the computer is shared by more than one person. One person just uses email, and Acrobat reader to read pdfs in the email, then one of the kiddies uses it to play bejewelled 2. Another uses it to play some word scramble thingy. Next thing you know yet another person actually needs to do some word processing, printing and also needs the spreadsheet/powerpoint stuff around to view other things they get emailed from their broker/boss or whoever.
But I suppose if the O/S is not capable enough to support such apps conveniently for some reason, the hardware manufacturers would be happy to sell people more to work around the "problem".
I think everyone should start to grow thicker skin if it starts becoming common to be surrounded by swarms of independently controlled video cameras.
Not because you might get "clubbed", but more because you're potentially just one embarassing step/move from being the next "Youtube star".
Dig your nose in public in an unusual way or something worse, and maybe someone might sync it to music, add some sound effects. Next thing you know, you get a whole discussion on wikipedia on whether you're notable or not, with a few undesirable comments thrown in for free.
In fact some silly youth(s) in my church has(have) put videos of other kids on youtube without the "stars" permission. I think that's rude, but hey maybe this will be the norm for the next generation.
People often say nasty things about certain stars for not wearing underwear, or doing other silly stuff etc, or even just fetching the mail without make up after a bad (or fantastic?) night. But who are the ones taking pictures, and publishing them. And who are the ones looking at those pics? And who are the ones making or even publishing hurtful remarks?
Maybe if it starts happening to enough people, people might start cutting others some slack.
Unlikely of course. But anyway, do unto others and all that, and "Let he who is without sin, 'cast the first video".;)
Yep. That's still murder. But rather provoked I'd say. In many countries they reduce the sentence for that.
One of the things I don't like about the US system is most convicted criminals lose their right to vote. And when they get out of jail, it's hard for them to get back their right to vote.
As for most other systems: once they get out of jail, it's still so hard for them to be treated like: "they've served their time". I figure, if they're clean after 3 years, their criminal record should be hidden for purposes of jobs and almost everything else except relevant law enforcement stuff.
Murder is not OK. But people do get imprisoned for crimes they did not commit, which is not OK either. So how sure are you that she's really guilty?
1) She's managed to stay fairly clean for 35 years, unless further digging shows she has actually committed more crimes during that period.
1.1) In absence of evidence of her committing crimes, I doubt she has killed anyone (else?) in the 35 years, so she's not really a danger to anyone, even IF she really did kill her husband.
2) Putting her in jail isn't going to bring back the dead.
Possible benefits of jailing her: a) It might discourage people from killing someone, then somehow escaping and not kill or commit any further crimes for as long as they live in hope that they get an amnesty. And then relatives of the murdered try to find and kill the murderer and do the same thing... Repeat, rinse etc. Then law and order start to break down. Might be a bit of stretch, depending on how well the cops etc work in practice.
b) Benefits the relatives and friends of the murdered person, in terms of satisfying their desire for vengeance and justice.
So maybe let her do an appeal based on new "evidence": "I couldn't have killed him, since I'm 'provably' not a murdering sort of person".
If the old evidence/records are still around, and it still seems like she did it, then back to prison it is, unless you'd like more potential for mercy: maybe she gets to go free if _all_ the close relatives, and maybe "known best friend(s)" of the murdered decide she should go free by a secret and anonymous ballot. The system could premptively get their votes (before sentencing) in case they die early or something... And allow them to change it years later in case of such an appeal.
I'm fine with Seagate saying that for their drives 1GB is 1000000000 bytes, since there is some technical justification for that. So I suppose their mistake was they didn't label their drives accordingly.
Still, I have NEVER encountered a problem with this, whether at work or elsewhere. Who goes out and buys only 200GB of HDD storage if they know they need at least 190GB? I bet most slashdotters also knew HDD GBs were different;).
I'll feel cheated if the drives weren't reasonably reliable and died after only just over a year (just an example NOT saying that Seagate drives are unreliable or reliable). 5 year warranty or not, doesn't matter.
So, though I have a fair number of seagate drives (I've maxtors and WDs too), I'm not going to claim a refund - I knew I was getting HDD GBs and bought them that way. Call me stupid if you want.
No bean bag recommendations? I'd like to see a "reference" bean bag.
How about some "reference" popcorn too?
And if you torrent your movies don't forget some reference clips[1] warning against the evils of "piracy" so that you get the real theater experience too.:p
Yes, cable length makes a big difference for digital signals. That's why I keep my 1Gbps Cat 5 cables to not more than 100m.
As for analog, one of my university professors used to say - audio frequencies are practically DC. While he might have been stretching things a bit, given the low frequencies involved ( < 100Khz) and the existing technologies available for decades I'd say there's some truth in what he's saying.
Linux makes up a very small percentage of desktop users, less than 1% probably.
HOWEVER, Mac users are a significant percentage. There are statistics that claim 16% for notebooks, and I've got my own stats that don't disagree (based on mac addresses). There's also an impression that Mac users are more willing to pay more for most things.
So the stuff we make definitely has to work with Macs. Does the BBC's "Windows XP" only stuff work on Macs running MacOS? Without too much hoop-jumping.
BTW, I've even seen a PS3 (based on user agent - it sends short < 300 byte DHCP packets which is RFC noncompliant on some interpretations of the RFCs, seems some older Macs do that too). We did request some game consoles for proper compatibility testing with our stuff, but somehow they haven't appeared yet. Wonder why:).
Come to think of it, another dept did have a game console, and it was used for playing games. How quaint;).
Sure, but: 1) Why one brain cell per number? 2) What's the max number before the primate stops allocating a brain cell to numbers? Does that vary a lot on a per individual basis? Does that vary significantly on a per species basis? Is there a correlation with the perceived intelligence of the individual?
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Smart criminals who can afford to build such buildings _own_ the people who control SWAT teams.
"force feeding a goose until its liver basically explodes so that it's extra tasty."
:).
You got to stop getting your info solely from the religious materials distributed by PETA et all. For groups like PETA and the ALF, hardly any science or evidence is involved. They're modern day cults with their Jihad.
Easy sell I guess as war seems so popular nowadays. You have war against foie gras, war against eating animals and so on.
Maybe some farms are cruel to their birds, but cruelty is not necessary (and some argue not even beneficial) for the production of good foie gras.
It sure seems like the geese are happily gorging themselves. Pigs!
My family (well ok my dad) used to have a pair of geese and they'll definitely peck you or worse if they weren't happy. Gave them away in the end. Maybe we should have made foie gras from them, but I suppose the convention is to not eat pets
"Foie gras is comparable to chopping up an animal into serving size pieces - while it's still alive."
It's not comparable at all. The geese willingly go to get themselves stuffed with food (google). It might not be healthy for them, but whether they get fattened or not they're going to get slaughtered in the end anyway. The farm definitely won't want any of them to die prematurely either.
AFAIK, plenty of people willingly queue up to supersize their meals and themselves.
As for slaughterhouses being shut down, people should be asking why there's so much salmonella and e. coli about - it's because of really crappy practices. Telling people to cook their contaminated meat thoroughly so that it's safe to eat is avoiding the real issue on why there's so much "shit" in/on the meat (or even vegetables) in the first place. The regulators allow unsafe practices and shift the problem to the consumers.
AFAIK the bonobos also have sex with immature members of their group (google). Seems to work fine for them. I won't be surprised if dolphins and other animals do that too. It's probably just not suitable to show on the National Geographic channel ;).
Anyway, "natural" is overrated.
Humans should use their big brains and figure out what is good overall and long term. That said the norms of cultures that have survived and _thrived_ for thousands of years should not be discarded overnight without a great deal of evidence. There are many different human cultures, and it is fairly obvious that some are crappier than others.
We need to start using our brains a lot more and not just do stuff because it is technologically possible. Society is not ready for a USD10K "kill everyone" bioweapon kit. And just because someone figures out a way to make a cheap gigawatt "infinitech" powerplant it doesn't mean everyone should have one before we figure a way of preventing/avoiding the entire world from glowing red hot from the excess heat.
"It seems like a good way to regulate the temperature of a water bath"
:).
Not really. Your idea only makes sense if you did want to reduce the pressure for some other reason - selectively evaporate stuff - like in fractional distillation.
For temperature control, you use a thermometer/thermostat with feedback.
For example you can soft boil eggs in an oven. You just need to calibrate your oven well. Then if you set it to 65 degrees C and stick the eggs in for an hour, they still won't be hard boiled
What would be nice is an affordable home oven with aerogel insulation and a quick safe way for the oven to dump heat to lower temperatures fast and preferably evenly. But I guess why ovens remain inefficient is because the main target market for ovens are people living in colder climates. They don't care if heat "spills out" from the oven - it just makes the room "nice and warm". Believe me, in warmer/hotter places the extra heat is not so nice...
"Converting different blood types to O is fantastic"
;).
There have been a fair number of people attempting to convert their blood type to XO positive[1] with varying degrees of success
[1] Seems my uncle is one of those few born with an XO+ blood type, which may explain his compensating by consuming beer, wine and other "soft" drinks regularly.
Guess which is the crappy industry?
;).
The one where if you are number 2 (AMD), you lose billions of dollars a year even though you:
1) produce decent products with near top of the line technology
2) price them reasonably
3) Keep improving them every year
4) Keep reinvesting _billions_ of money to keep yourself competitive
(It's similar in the memory industry and other tech industries as well).
I'm sure the "stupid" people in the medical industry are going to take his advice. Yeah, right.
And the people in the furniture industry who make crap chairs for high prices and "help" give millions back problems will actually start making comfortable chairs for reasonable prices that don't fall apart after less than 3 years. It's amazing how people are still making crappy chairs after thousands of years. Whereas there's hardly any market for 5MB hard drives anymore except maybe in some weird niche or for collectors.
The medical industry stuff isn't that easy, so I'll cut them a bit of slack (a bit only though, they still could be doing a lot better than they are now). But the furniture industry has a lot to answer for.
Anyway I think the IT industry has become the "glamor" industry for a lot of resources to be chucked at - brains, money etc.
In the 1950s-1970s it probably was aerospace, resulting in major advances like the first airliner, jumbo jet, concorde, mission to mars, space station, apollo etc. In comparison now we're just barely managing to stop the space shuttle from blowing up, and we're just talking about redoing the same old things all over again (Mars, Moon, space station, *yawn*).
That said the IT industry isn't doing that great either. We still haven't got AI after so many years of _crappy_ "research", we've spent a fair bit of time reimplementing UNIX, lots of code is still in crappy C. Douglas Engelbart must be very disappointed with the "advances" the IT software industry has made.
And where are those nuclear fusion power plants?
"You're all slackers!" he said, as he posted on slashdot
AFAIK this is not a file system level problem. It is "above" that level.
So if they don't fix this problem it is likely to still be present even if they switch to ZFS.
Yeah, what's eating him?
Even more so if the computer is shared by more than one person. One person just uses email, and Acrobat reader to read pdfs in the email, then one of the kiddies uses it to play bejewelled 2. Another uses it to play some word scramble thingy. Next thing you know yet another person actually needs to do some word processing, printing and also needs the spreadsheet/powerpoint stuff around to view other things they get emailed from their broker/boss or whoever.
But I suppose if the O/S is not capable enough to support such apps conveniently for some reason, the hardware manufacturers would be happy to sell people more to work around the "problem".
I think everyone should start to grow thicker skin if it starts becoming common to be surrounded by swarms of independently controlled video cameras.
;)
Not because you might get "clubbed", but more because you're potentially just one embarassing step/move from being the next "Youtube star".
Dig your nose in public in an unusual way or something worse, and maybe someone might sync it to music, add some sound effects. Next thing you know, you get a whole discussion on wikipedia on whether you're notable or not, with a few undesirable comments thrown in for free.
In fact some silly youth(s) in my church has(have) put videos of other kids on youtube without the "stars" permission. I think that's rude, but hey maybe this will be the norm for the next generation.
People often say nasty things about certain stars for not wearing underwear, or doing other silly stuff etc, or even just fetching the mail without make up after a bad (or fantastic?) night. But who are the ones taking pictures, and publishing them. And who are the ones looking at those pics? And who are the ones making or even publishing hurtful remarks?
Maybe if it starts happening to enough people, people might start cutting others some slack.
Unlikely of course. But anyway, do unto others and all that, and "Let he who is without sin, 'cast the first video".
Yep. That's still murder. But rather provoked I'd say. In many countries they reduce the sentence for that.
One of the things I don't like about the US system is most convicted criminals lose their right to vote. And when they get out of jail, it's hard for them to get back their right to vote.
As for most other systems: once they get out of jail, it's still so hard for them to be treated like: "they've served their time". I figure, if they're clean after 3 years, their criminal record should be hidden for purposes of jobs and almost everything else except relevant law enforcement stuff.
Murder is not OK. But people do get imprisoned for crimes they did not commit, which is not OK either. So how sure are you that she's really guilty?
1) She's managed to stay fairly clean for 35 years, unless further digging shows she has actually committed more crimes during that period.
1.1) In absence of evidence of her committing crimes, I doubt she has killed anyone (else?) in the 35 years, so she's not really a danger to anyone, even IF she really did kill her husband.
2) Putting her in jail isn't going to bring back the dead.
Possible benefits of jailing her:
a) It might discourage people from killing someone, then somehow escaping and not kill or commit any further crimes for as long as they live in hope that they get an amnesty. And then relatives of the murdered try to find and kill the murderer and do the same thing... Repeat, rinse etc. Then law and order start to break down. Might be a bit of stretch, depending on how well the cops etc work in practice.
b) Benefits the relatives and friends of the murdered person, in terms of satisfying their desire for vengeance and justice.
So maybe let her do an appeal based on new "evidence": "I couldn't have killed him, since I'm 'provably' not a murdering sort of person".
If the old evidence/records are still around, and it still seems like she did it, then back to prison it is, unless you'd like more potential for mercy: maybe she gets to go free if _all_ the close relatives, and maybe "known best friend(s)" of the murdered decide she should go free by a secret and anonymous ballot. The system could premptively get their votes (before sentencing) in case they die early or something... And allow them to change it years later in case of such an appeal.
4 months? Wow that's what I call a long run :).
You can control the direction the mice run. They've solved that years ago.
:).
Since they're stronger they can carry a payload that controls them.
Mod some more spy squirrels too and get Iran upset
Health? This is Slashdot.
They seriously need to rethink about which gene modifying substances they should be consuming.
Anyway, there are already mice with super regeneration abilities. And also super strong ones.
Wonder what the drawbacks would be if you add all the mods together - regen, strength, stamina, brains.
If it's just needing a lot more food and a 10% shorter lifespan, then some people may be willing to pay the price.
Agree.
:).
There are easy ways to do multiplatform video.
Also, for the Beeb to be Microsoft-centric is "just wrong" from an "institutional" point of view. The Beeb is not supposed to like that.
Fauxnews could go do that sort of thing if they want, I don't care
I'm fine with Seagate saying that for their drives 1GB is 1000000000 bytes, since there is some technical justification for that. So I suppose their mistake was they didn't label their drives accordingly.
;).
Still, I have NEVER encountered a problem with this, whether at work or elsewhere. Who goes out and buys only 200GB of HDD storage if they know they need at least 190GB? I bet most slashdotters also knew HDD GBs were different
I'll feel cheated if the drives weren't reasonably reliable and died after only just over a year (just an example NOT saying that Seagate drives are unreliable or reliable). 5 year warranty or not, doesn't matter.
So, though I have a fair number of seagate drives (I've maxtors and WDs too), I'm not going to claim a refund - I knew I was getting HDD GBs and bought them that way. Call me stupid if you want.
No bean bag recommendations? I'd like to see a "reference" bean bag.
:p
How about some "reference" popcorn too?
And if you torrent your movies don't forget some reference clips[1] warning against the evils of "piracy" so that you get the real theater experience too.
[1] http://youtube.com/watch?v=d82Lq2rVB_4
Yes, cable length makes a big difference for digital signals. That's why I keep my 1Gbps Cat 5 cables to not more than 100m.
As for analog, one of my university professors used to say - audio frequencies are practically DC. While he might have been stretching things a bit, given the low frequencies involved ( < 100Khz) and the existing technologies available for decades I'd say there's some truth in what he's saying.
Oh it's you again.
:).
I did read your post correctly. Maybe you didn't read mine correctly.
I suppose I have been trolled, and your replies should really be beneath my threshold.
Oh well, have fun nonetheless
Linux makes up a very small percentage of desktop users, less than 1% probably.
:).
;).
HOWEVER, Mac users are a significant percentage. There are statistics that claim 16% for notebooks, and I've got my own stats that don't disagree (based on mac addresses). There's also an impression that Mac users are more willing to pay more for most things.
So the stuff we make definitely has to work with Macs. Does the BBC's "Windows XP" only stuff work on Macs running MacOS? Without too much hoop-jumping.
BTW, I've even seen a PS3 (based on user agent - it sends short < 300 byte DHCP packets which is RFC noncompliant on some interpretations of the RFCs, seems some older Macs do that too). We did request some game consoles for proper compatibility testing with our stuff, but somehow they haven't appeared yet. Wonder why
Come to think of it, another dept did have a game console, and it was used for playing games. How quaint
"5) A little time and care."
How much time actually? AFAIK he wasn't making that much per notebook.
fence price / total "work time" (stealing, reinstalling, selling) = ?
Nah the Mayan probably wore open toed sandals ;).
Sure, but:
1) Why one brain cell per number?
2) What's the max number before the primate stops allocating a brain cell to numbers? Does that vary a lot on a per individual basis? Does that vary significantly on a per species basis? Is there a correlation with the perceived intelligence of the individual?