Bacteria can be easily transferred from animals to humans.
Can be, yes, but NOT easily, and I've seen NO evidence thus far that the antibiotic resistant strains that are plaguing hospitals have been linked to animals.
So far, all I've seen is assumptions and dogma, and you've provided
It is possible. Which means it will probably happen, given enough occurrences.
It's possible, but is it 1 in 10 or 1 in 10billion? It completely changes the risk/reward calculation.
What's the advantage of using antibiotics for no reason, other than somehow making animals grow faster?
Keeping animals healthy and disease free is a big benefit. Livestock plagues would be a very bad thing for humans. And it's not just profit margins, you're also talking about less resource usage, and lower food prices for the poor. These are all good things,
The fact the claim of over-indulgence in pre-emptive antibiotics use in cattle is a cause of resistant bacteria strains affecting humans is under-reported in the mainstream US media does not mean it is not supported by reputable scientific studies.
Care to point me to one of these studies, because I've never been able to find them. Everything I've found has been very wishy-washy speculation which isn't ever able to connect the dots between animals and humans.
Quote:
"Evidence for the transfer of so-called superbugs from animals to humans has been scant, and most evidence shows that pathogens of concern in human populations originated in humans and are maintained there, with rare cases of transference to humans" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antibiotic_resistance#Role_of_other_animals
a flashlight is rarely used for more than 15 minutes
Perhaps, but is it in your hand the whole time? If I set it down next to me as I change my tire, this thing won't produce any light.
This thing is zero-maintenance
So is a solar flashlight, so is a wind-up flashlight, so is a plug-in rechargeable flashlight, etc.
And in an emergency is not the time to mess around with a toy like this that gives out barely any light, because there's so little to be had from the temperature differential.
It should be possible to query the database to dynamically determine what templates (or categories, or anything else) are defined.
Wikimedia is far too free-form and untyped, so if there needs to be a back-end change to improve this, it would be a great benefit even without the editor.
if you can do 40G over twisted pairs, it's because of the technique and the error correction methods - NOT THE CABLE.
This is massively, totally, completely, and utterly untrue. It seems to be at the heart of why everything you've said is wrong, and as I said before: "stupid".
You can go down to your nearest tool store and buy phone line by the foot (commonly "CAT-3 voice"). Get about 100m of the stuff, and crimp some RJ45 connectors on the thing, Hook it up between two computers with GbE NICs, and try sending some packets back and forth. Let me know how well that works out for you.
Batteries and generators in mechanical torches wear out over time. This device does not.
Peltiers wear out over time, too. That's why stores sell replacement thermocouples for furnaces, water heaters, etc. I recently had to throw out a tiny refrigerator because the peltier gave up. They're also very finicky, and die much more quickly in humid climates, and similar.
no coils to corrode, no mechanism to seize up.
If the spring in your dynamo flashlight is corroding, you'd have big problems with any type of flashlight, including this one, as they've all got METAL wiring throughout.
This thing could be strapped to your glove compartment or next to your bed WITHOUT having to worry about battery life or maintenance.
Even a tiny battery powered flashlight can put out a lot of light for several hours. This thing dies after "20 minutes or so".
It's always nice to be called an idiot by someone who is simultaneously demonstrating that they have ZERO knowledge of the topic, and also couldn't even completely read the short summary, which clearly mentioned the shortcomings.
She bought a peltier, and hooked it up to a joule thief circuit design she found online. She's learning something about finding electronic components, and putting them together, but that's not a science experiement.
Solar powered flashlights do a very good job, and are hassle-free.
NiMH LSD batteries (AAA/AA/D/9V) are only about 3x the price of disposibles, hold a charge forever, work in any common flashlight, and can be recharged with the cheapest and simplest solar battery chargers, as well as conventional chargers.
If you want a thermocouple design... Mount the peltier to a stove, and hook the leads to a battery charger.
The "shake" lights are a terrible design, almost as gimmicky as this one . You can go with solar powered lights, so the battery will be kept charged. Or you can go with crank-type flashlights, which will turn a minute of work into several minutes of light.
Personally, I'm happy with batteries. Low self discharge NIMH batteries are extremely impressive. I have a single, seperate solar battery charger in the event of power outage or hiking, and can be used to power radios, phones, or anything else. And I've got the freedom to select whatever design of light I want, inexpensively, from pocket sized units I carry around, to room-illuminating lantern-replacements, to high intensity lights.
I'm reasonably impressed with what they've got, except that the performance blows, and slows editing way down... It at least allows using existing references (which most people don't know how to do), and will try to auto-complete links to other articles, but that's about it.
With references in particular, it only inserts the <ref> tags, leaving you complete freedom to type anything, or nothing, in there. Compare this to ANY of Wiki reference templates, where references are named, and there's a strong syntax enforced for dates, names, titles, publisher, and tons, tons more. eg.
<ref name=ebu_surround_test_2007<{{Citation | last = B/MAE Project Group | title = EBU evaluations of multichannel audio codecs | pages = | date=September, 2007 | publisher = [[European Broadcasting Union]] | url = http://www.ebu.ch/CMSimages/en/tec_doc_t3324-2007_tcm6-53801.pdf |format=PDF| accessdate = 2008-04-09 }}
The big problem with Wikipedia is the HUGE number of tags, templates, categories, etc., and the editor does nothing to introduce you to them when you don't know about them, nor help you find and insert the one you're looking for.
When editing, I'd be constantly doing free-form searches, to find useful tags, syntax, and just exploring around similar pages to find good categories.
Rather than WYSIWYG, they'd do far better just to have a few hierarchical menus, that'll insert the proper wiki code for you, rather than constant copy/paste from template pages... For example, the ref button is pretty useless... But a ref drop-down, with sub-options like "Book" "Web" "Magazine" etc., would be far more useful. Of course if they could make a pop-up form, with fields for all those values, and automagically guessing which type of ref you've input, and which template is best, would be far better still.
Her long-time interest is alternative energy because, '[she's] really interested in harvesting surplus energy, energy that surrounds but we never really use
The thing her presentation is missing is any acknowledgment that she has actually learned something, and realizes now that her flashlight is a neat little science trick, but otherwise terribly impractical.
It only works for a few minutes, as the flashlight heats up to match your body temperature, and wouldn't work at all where ambient temps are remotely similar to body temperature. She also got only a tiny amount of power and light out of it, which could be provided for weeks or months by a watch battery without the expensive peltier in the mix.
Slightly more interesting than vinegar and water mixed together in a model volcano, but the real question is whether she learned something valuable in all of this.
Don Coppersmith, who had discovered differential cryptanalysis while working (as a summer intern) at IBM during the development of DES in the early 1970's, published a brief paper (1994, IBM J. of R&D) saying "Yep, we figured out this technique for breaking our DES candidates, and strengthened them against it. We told the NSA, and they said 'we already know, and we're glad you've made these improvements, but we'd prefer you not say anything about this'." And he didn't, for twenty years.
Hmm... So in Don Coppersmith's version of events, he's a genius who saved the day, and kept completely silent about it for two decades.
Meanwhile, in everyone else's version, the NSA was directly involved and responsible for the changes to the S-boxes.
2. The symmetric cipher the chip used, Skipjack, was subject to a devastating attack on its first day of declassification (breaking half the rounds)
WTF are you talking about? Being able to break a reduced-rounds version of a cipher does NOT make it any easier to crack the full version, and does NOT indicate there is any further vulnerability to be exploited.
My building has a 5Gbs fibre connection, I spoke with the teleco service guy when they were out replacing the equipment a couple months ago. The limiting factor now is the fact the building was wired about 12 years ago with Cat 5.
CAT-5 should get you gigabit ethernet speeds, no problem. If you've got more than 5 people in your building, the 5Gbps fiber connection is, in fact, still the bottleneck. You can oversubscribe a line only so far, before it gets congested.
This is great for apartment buildings/complexes where running fiber to the buildings isn't the problem. It's running fiber within the buildings (to the individual units) that's expensive.
Are you kidding me? You think buying a truck-load of brand-new high-tech DSLAMs and DSL modems for each apt is going to be CHEAPER than running CAT-6 or fiber up a wall?
I've lived in apartment complexes big and small, and I can't think of one of them that would be difficult to rewire. With multi-story units, you're talking about snaking a fish tape from the ground floor up several stories to an attic/crawl space, then pulling a bundle of wires down, and terminating them at each level. With smaller units, you're talking about stapling a few tens of feet of lines to the overhang, and through the wall.
Coordinating the in-apt access would be a bit of a hassle, but combine it with the annual inspection or some other maintenance / repairs, and you're all set. The process is non-trivial, but would be far, far cheaper than a boat-load of new equipment, when you could have cheaper, faster, and future-proofed for a fraction the cost.
And for the record, I just got done with a bunch of wiring upgrades to my old house... Taking drops that only had phone lines, and running coax and CAT-6 into them, connecting them up to a $2 panel that had all three hookups.
Over 100m, Gigabit over copper is already trivially possible. My computer has it built-in, so has anything you've bought in the last few years.
The problem of local connections such as 100m is solved. We're there.
This is just stupid. Yes, gigabit ethernet works over CAT-6 data cabling. But guess what? Phone lines AREN'T CAT-6 data. Phone lines are commonly CAT-1 voice. Unshielded, untwisted, etc. If you're super-lucky, some of your phone lines MIGHT be CAT-3 voice, but that's also NOT THE SAME THING AS CAT-3 DATA cabling, either.
And if you're suggesting replacing all phone lines with CAT-6 data cabling, you're insane, and don't have any comprehension of the subject. At that point, you'd be far better off using fiber.
if it's sending data from your phone, that's part of your monthly usage.
That's not how it works. Your provider can and does exclude traffic to/from specific mediated IP addresses from your monthly bill. This is also why you can purchase services that actually use and require IP based data (such a streaming video/audio services, chat, navigation, etc.) without having a data plan.
It's true that software development wouldn't stop entirely, it would just be reduced to 0.1% of what it currently is.
Those clients that want custom software... How happy will they be if to get that custom software, they MUST expose all the proprietary info and trade secrets they put into it?
The idea was that the USA would be a shining city on a hill, an example for other nations. It wasn't supposed to be a beacon for immigrants.
"The shining city on a hill" is very recent, far more so than massive US immigration promoted by the US. The US desire for immigrants dates back at-least to the Louisiana Purchase (1803), where it was acknowledged that holding the land against other powers with colonial ambitions required occupation by US citizens, with economic ties to the east coast.
"Keep your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. Send me your young, your rich, Your highly skilled, willing to work 18 hour days. They will soon be returned to you as wretched refuse, on your teeming shore."
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Can be, yes, but NOT easily, and I've seen NO evidence thus far that the antibiotic resistant strains that are plaguing hospitals have been linked to animals.
So far, all I've seen is assumptions and dogma, and you've provided
It's possible, but is it 1 in 10 or 1 in 10billion? It completely changes the risk/reward calculation.
Keeping animals healthy and disease free is a big benefit. Livestock plagues would be a very bad thing for humans. And it's not just profit margins, you're also talking about less resource usage, and lower food prices for the poor. These are all good things,
Care to point me to one of these studies, because I've never been able to find them. Everything I've found has been very wishy-washy speculation which isn't ever able to connect the dots between animals and humans.
Quote:
"Evidence for the transfer of so-called superbugs from animals to humans has been scant, and most evidence shows that pathogens of concern in human populations originated in humans and are maintained there, with rare cases of transference to humans"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antibiotic_resistance#Role_of_other_animals
Perhaps, but is it in your hand the whole time? If I set it down next to me as I change my tire, this thing won't produce any light.
So is a solar flashlight, so is a wind-up flashlight, so is a plug-in rechargeable flashlight, etc.
And in an emergency is not the time to mess around with a toy like this that gives out barely any light, because there's so little to be had from the temperature differential.
It should be possible to query the database to dynamically determine what templates (or categories, or anything else) are defined.
Wikimedia is far too free-form and untyped, so if there needs to be a back-end change to improve this, it would be a great benefit even without the editor.
This is massively, totally, completely, and utterly untrue. It seems to be at the heart of why everything you've said is wrong, and as I said before: "stupid".
You can go down to your nearest tool store and buy phone line by the foot (commonly "CAT-3 voice"). Get about 100m of the stuff, and crimp some RJ45 connectors on the thing, Hook it up between two computers with GbE NICs, and try sending some packets back and forth. Let me know how well that works out for you.
Peltiers wear out over time, too. That's why stores sell replacement thermocouples for furnaces, water heaters, etc. I recently had to throw out a tiny refrigerator because the peltier gave up. They're also very finicky, and die much more quickly in humid climates, and similar.
If the spring in your dynamo flashlight is corroding, you'd have big problems with any type of flashlight, including this one, as they've all got METAL wiring throughout.
Even a tiny battery powered flashlight can put out a lot of light for several hours. This thing dies after "20 minutes or so".
It's always nice to be called an idiot by someone who is simultaneously demonstrating that they have ZERO knowledge of the topic, and also couldn't even completely read the short summary, which clearly mentioned the shortcomings.
The quote from the Senate inquiry CLEARLY says:
The NSA "assisted in the development of the S-box structures"
She bought a peltier, and hooked it up to a joule thief circuit design she found online. She's learning something about finding electronic components, and putting them together, but that's not a science experiement.
Anything you can buy is better.
Crank or squeeze flashlights do a fine job.
Solar powered flashlights do a very good job, and are hassle-free.
NiMH LSD batteries (AAA/AA/D/9V) are only about 3x the price of disposibles, hold a charge forever, work in any common flashlight, and can be recharged with the cheapest and simplest solar battery chargers, as well as conventional chargers.
If you want a thermocouple design... Mount the peltier to a stove, and hook the leads to a battery charger.
The "shake" lights are a terrible design, almost as gimmicky as this one . You can go with solar powered lights, so the battery will be kept charged. Or you can go with crank-type flashlights, which will turn a minute of work into several minutes of light.
Personally, I'm happy with batteries. Low self discharge NIMH batteries are extremely impressive. I have a single, seperate solar battery charger in the event of power outage or hiking, and can be used to power radios, phones, or anything else. And I've got the freedom to select whatever design of light I want, inexpensively, from pocket sized units I carry around, to room-illuminating lantern-replacements, to high intensity lights.
I'm reasonably impressed with what they've got, except that the performance blows, and slows editing way down... It at least allows using existing references (which most people don't know how to do), and will try to auto-complete links to other articles, but that's about it.
With references in particular, it only inserts the <ref> tags, leaving you complete freedom to type anything, or nothing, in there. Compare this to ANY of Wiki reference templates, where references are named, and there's a strong syntax enforced for dates, names, titles, publisher, and tons, tons more. eg.
<ref name=ebu_surround_test_2007<{{Citation | last = B/MAE Project Group | title = EBU evaluations of multichannel audio codecs | pages = | date=September, 2007 | publisher = [[European Broadcasting Union]] | url = http://www.ebu.ch/CMSimages/en/tec_doc_t3324-2007_tcm6-53801.pdf |format=PDF| accessdate = 2008-04-09 }}
The big problem with Wikipedia is the HUGE number of tags, templates, categories, etc., and the editor does nothing to introduce you to them when you don't know about them, nor help you find and insert the one you're looking for.
When editing, I'd be constantly doing free-form searches, to find useful tags, syntax, and just exploring around similar pages to find good categories.
Rather than WYSIWYG, they'd do far better just to have a few hierarchical menus, that'll insert the proper wiki code for you, rather than constant copy/paste from template pages... For example, the ref button is pretty useless... But a ref drop-down, with sub-options like "Book" "Web" "Magazine" etc., would be far more useful. Of course if they could make a pop-up form, with fields for all those values, and automagically guessing which type of ref you've input, and which template is best, would be far better still.
The thing her presentation is missing is any acknowledgment that she has actually learned something, and realizes now that her flashlight is a neat little science trick, but otherwise terribly impractical.
It only works for a few minutes, as the flashlight heats up to match your body temperature, and wouldn't work at all where ambient temps are remotely similar to body temperature. She also got only a tiny amount of power and light out of it, which could be provided for weeks or months by a watch battery without the expensive peltier in the mix.
Slightly more interesting than vinegar and water mixed together in a model volcano, but the real question is whether she learned something valuable in all of this.
Hmm... So in Don Coppersmith's version of events, he's a genius who saved the day, and kept completely silent about it for two decades.
Meanwhile, in everyone else's version, the NSA was directly involved and responsible for the changes to the S-boxes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Encryption_Standard#NSA.27s_involvement_in_the_design
It's trivially easy to find this info. It's been in the Wiki for years:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Encryption_Standard#NSA.27s_involvement_in_the_design
WTF are you talking about? Being able to break a reduced-rounds version of a cipher does NOT make it any easier to crack the full version, and does NOT indicate there is any further vulnerability to be exploited.
CAT-5 should get you gigabit ethernet speeds, no problem. If you've got more than 5 people in your building, the 5Gbps fiber connection is, in fact, still the bottleneck. You can oversubscribe a line only so far, before it gets congested.
Are you kidding me? You think buying a truck-load of brand-new high-tech DSLAMs and DSL modems for each apt is going to be CHEAPER than running CAT-6 or fiber up a wall?
I've lived in apartment complexes big and small, and I can't think of one of them that would be difficult to rewire. With multi-story units, you're talking about snaking a fish tape from the ground floor up several stories to an attic/crawl space, then pulling a bundle of wires down, and terminating them at each level. With smaller units, you're talking about stapling a few tens of feet of lines to the overhang, and through the wall.
Coordinating the in-apt access would be a bit of a hassle, but combine it with the annual inspection or some other maintenance / repairs, and you're all set. The process is non-trivial, but would be far, far cheaper than a boat-load of new equipment, when you could have cheaper, faster, and future-proofed for a fraction the cost.
And for the record, I just got done with a bunch of wiring upgrades to my old house... Taking drops that only had phone lines, and running coax and CAT-6 into them, connecting them up to a $2 panel that had all three hookups.
This is just stupid. Yes, gigabit ethernet works over CAT-6 data cabling. But guess what? Phone lines AREN'T CAT-6 data. Phone lines are commonly CAT-1 voice. Unshielded, untwisted, etc. If you're super-lucky, some of your phone lines MIGHT be CAT-3 voice, but that's also NOT THE SAME THING AS CAT-3 DATA cabling, either.
And if you're suggesting replacing all phone lines with CAT-6 data cabling, you're insane, and don't have any comprehension of the subject. At that point, you'd be far better off using fiber.
They might be thrilled, TODAY, but two+ years from now they'll be moaning about their slow DSL service, and eying cable and FIOS.
That modder isn't a multi-national corporation, who can get away with a small fine if he's caught stealing data.
Humans get jail time. Corporations pay a trivial fine.
That's not how it works. Your provider can and does exclude traffic to/from specific mediated IP addresses from your monthly bill. This is also why you can purchase services that actually use and require IP based data (such a streaming video/audio services, chat, navigation, etc.) without having a data plan.
Jesus is a pretty common hispanic name. You might as well open up the big book of baby names and go to town...
I'm off to planet "Steve"...
It's true that software development wouldn't stop entirely, it would just be reduced to 0.1% of what it currently is.
Those clients that want custom software... How happy will they be if to get that custom software, they MUST expose all the proprietary info and trade secrets they put into it?
"The shining city on a hill" is very recent, far more so than massive US immigration promoted by the US. The US desire for immigrants dates back at-least to the Louisiana Purchase (1803), where it was acknowledged that holding the land against other powers with colonial ambitions required occupation by US citizens, with economic ties to the east coast.
"Keep your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
Send me your young, your rich,
Your highly skilled, willing to work 18 hour days.
They will soon be returned to you as wretched refuse,
on your teeming shore."