"They're meant to seed genetic traits -- one that stops mosquitoes from carrying malaria, for instance, or hampers invasive rodents' ability to reproduce -- in a population, and with terrifyingly high odds of inheritance. "
There is a way that often works: You join in and improve the idea until it becomes absurd and dies by itself. Then you blame the original inventor for the failure.
So if I set up a robot that calls all political parties and members of the house once a week urging them to stop robo-calls then that is also free speech. If 10000 others follow my example their phone lines are clogged.
The default ubuntu installation has a guest user without password. This feature can be turned off but I noticed that every once in a while the configuration changes (move from/etc/lightdm to/usr/share/lightdm without removing/etc/lightdm for example) so that if you don't pay attention the guest user is back. In my opinion the guest user removes one barrier for an attacker and is a bad idea.
First there are diseases and parasites: deformed wing virus, European foul brood, American Foul brood. Varroa mites are carriers of deseases. Small hive beatles and wax moth can turn your hive into a soup. If you ignore those they will show up in your other hives and in your neigbor's hives. Then there is swarming: Half of your bees leave (and don't make honey) and set up shop in your neigbor's attic (he really likes that). You want to prevent that. You should replace the queen every other year: young queen = many bees = honey. Bees need 60 pounds of honey as food for the winter. You need to make sure you don't take too much, and you may have to feed them if the winter is long. For all who are interested: if you want to start beekeeping, NOW is the time to act. Find your local beekeeping club and order bees now.
I would absolutely love to be part of that. Colony Collapse Disorder is investigated for a long time and is still not understood. What happens is that you have a healthy bee yard with many hives full of bees (50000 each hive) and you come back a week later and they are gone, except for the queens and a few workers. What happened? They did not leave voluntarily, not without the queen. There are no dead bees in front of the hive, like you would have with pesticide poisoning. There is not one virus or disease common to those cases. One possible cause could be the new pesticides called neonicotinoids, which act like a nerve agent. The claim is that the bees fly off to forage and cant remember how to get back home. But this is only a guess, and this experiment could give some insight. Do the bees fly around aimlessly? Should we ban neonicotinoids? neonicotinoids are not sprayed but seeds are soaked in it. The whole plant will then be poisoned, but the poison is limited to the crop. One needs a lot less poison that with traditional pesticides. So this is an important question with huge commercial consequences.
P.S. Beekeeping is absolutely fascinating and addictive. The more I learn the more there is to lean. Call you local beekeeper's club to learn more.
I recommend beekeeping. I think it is geeky, even though it has nothing to do with electronics. It will keep your mind sharp, because in order to keep your bees alive with todays parasites and polutants you have to learn a lot. He will meet other beekeepers and those guys are the nices paople. Also, bee stings are good for arthitis (if you get stung it is most of the time your own fault and perfectly avoidable). More info at your local beekeepers club.
If there is software that can detect photoshopping then the same algorithm can be used to erase all signs of alteration. You can make a fake picture real.
A No Brainer indeed. Mobility increases genetic diversity. You seem to be all against that. You want everybody to mate within their village and produce No-Brainer off-springs.
I use Xvfb to make a virtual screen on the number cruncher (comes with xorg). I don't need to see the display, it just has to be there for wine. If something goes wrong (error box pops up) and there is no progress I take a screen dump of the vortual screen to see it. This eliminates traffic on the network too.
If they add just noise you can send the message many times and avarage on the receiving end. The noise will be reduced by a factor of square_root(n), where n is the number of messages. However, the article does not say they will just add noise. It says they will in the next few month waste some research money to study the topic. Interesting is also that they think that it is positive to support DRM with steganography. Die sind richtige Arschloecher.
I think it is not what signal you receive but what you send. Wifi is used with a laptop, which is placed during operation right on top of your family jewels.
Don't assume malice when incompetence is a possible explanation. Your boss probably thinks that it is a petty crime and no one will notice. Show him news clips that show that 1) windows now calls home and rats out the customer, 2) BSA has the right to come and audit (cost the city of Virginia Beach $1.6M). Then ask him not to put you into this situation. He may not be as bad after all.
Most comments here assume that ebay shoppers are or should be rational. The real problem is that (more than you think) buyers behave like addicts. It is similar to gambling addiction and closely related to shopping addiction. Why does a woman (Imelda) buy 3000 pairs of shoes? So the question is: should society protect these addicts from people who prey on addicts. Should it be illegal to sell crack....dope....booze....antiques...shopping...??
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I usually start with my check book and it makes me cry, so I don't read on.
"They're meant to seed genetic traits -- one that stops mosquitoes from carrying malaria, for instance, or hampers invasive rodents' ability to reproduce -- in a population, and with terrifyingly high odds of inheritance. "
The inability to reproduce is not inheritable.
There is a way that often works: You join in and improve the idea until it becomes absurd and dies by itself. Then you blame the original inventor for the failure.
because I always pay cash
Me too. It could tell my ankle bracelet that I am at home when I am at the air port.
So if I set up a robot that calls all political parties and members of the house once a week urging them to stop robo-calls then that is also free speech. If 10000 others follow my example their phone lines are clogged.
The default ubuntu installation has a guest user without password. This feature can be turned off but I noticed that every once in a while the configuration changes (move from /etc/lightdm to /usr/share/lightdm without removing /etc/lightdm for example) so that if you don't pay attention the guest user is back. In my opinion the guest user removes one barrier for an attacker and is a bad idea.
or the right half?
There is no reason not to have different ISO sizes. I would love to have an ISO that fits on a CD AND one that is 32GByte big.
The caps lock key is necessary when I have to type a password with upper case characters while holding my coffee mug. Don't get rid of it.
First there are diseases and parasites: deformed wing virus, European foul brood, American Foul brood. Varroa mites are carriers of deseases. Small hive beatles and wax moth can turn your hive into a soup. If you ignore those they will show up in your other hives and in your neigbor's hives. Then there is swarming: Half of your bees leave (and don't make honey) and set up shop in your neigbor's attic (he really likes that). You want to prevent that. You should replace the queen every other year: young queen = many bees = honey. Bees need 60 pounds of honey as food for the winter. You need to make sure you don't take too much, and you may have to feed them if the winter is long.
For all who are interested: if you want to start beekeeping, NOW is the time to act. Find your local beekeeping club and order bees now.
What a great way to harvest email adresses and "some basic information" to sell to 3rd parties.
We should have an amendment that every ballot must contain the choice "none of the above". I would go voting every time.
I would absolutely love to be part of that. Colony Collapse Disorder is investigated for a long time and is still not understood. What happens is that you have a healthy bee yard with many hives full of bees (50000 each hive) and you come back a week later and they are gone, except for the queens and a few workers. What happened? They did not leave voluntarily, not without the queen. There are no dead bees in front of the hive, like you would have with pesticide poisoning. There is not one virus or disease common to those cases.
One possible cause could be the new pesticides called neonicotinoids, which act like a nerve agent. The claim is that the bees fly off to forage and cant remember how to get back home. But this is only a guess, and this experiment could give some insight. Do the bees fly around aimlessly?
Should we ban neonicotinoids? neonicotinoids are not sprayed but seeds are soaked in it. The whole plant will then be poisoned, but the poison is limited to the crop. One needs a lot less poison that with traditional pesticides. So this is an important question with huge commercial consequences.
P.S. Beekeeping is absolutely fascinating and addictive. The more I learn the more there is to lean. Call you local beekeeper's club to learn more.
I recommend beekeeping. I think it is geeky, even though it has nothing to do with electronics. It will keep your mind sharp, because in order to keep your bees alive with todays parasites and polutants you have to learn a lot. He will meet other beekeepers and those guys are the nices paople. Also, bee stings are good for arthitis (if you get stung it is most of the time your own fault and perfectly avoidable). More info at your local beekeepers club.
If there is software that can detect photoshopping then the same algorithm can be used to erase all signs of alteration. You can make a fake picture real.
Since the actions of the police are not exempt by the BKA law the usual anti-hacking laws should apply. Is someone going to jail?
A No Brainer indeed. Mobility increases genetic diversity. You seem to be all against that. You want everybody to mate within their village and produce No-Brainer off-springs.
I was logged into Slashdot and that bloody web page said I was logged into facebook. I would NEVER use facebook. Damn liar....mumble mumble
I use Xvfb to make a virtual screen on the number cruncher (comes with xorg). I don't need to see the display, it just has to be there for wine. If something goes wrong (error box pops up) and there is no progress I take a screen dump of the vortual screen to see it. This eliminates traffic on the network too.
If they add just noise you can send the message many times and avarage on the receiving end. The noise will be reduced by a factor of square_root(n), where n is the number of messages. However, the article does not say they will just add noise. It says they will in the next few month waste some research money to study the topic. Interesting is also that they think that it is positive to support DRM with steganography. Die sind richtige Arschloecher.
I think it is not what signal you receive but what you send. Wifi is used with a laptop, which is placed during operation right on top of your family jewels.
Here is one from 1958:
http://www.bnl.gov/bnlweb/history/higinbotham.asp
Don't assume malice when incompetence is a possible explanation.
Your boss probably thinks that it is a petty crime and no one will notice. Show him news clips that show that 1) windows now calls home and rats out the customer, 2) BSA has the right to come and audit (cost the city of Virginia Beach $1.6M). Then ask him not to put you into this situation. He may not be as bad after all.
Most comments here assume that ebay shoppers are or should be rational. The real problem is that (more than you think) buyers behave like addicts. It is similar to gambling addiction and closely related to shopping addiction. Why does a woman (Imelda) buy 3000 pairs of shoes??
So the question is: should society protect these addicts from people who prey on addicts. Should it be illegal to sell crack....dope....booze....antiques...shopping...?