Very informative. Sounds like the key card system I was working on was a bit different since those things were on the network. Actually it sounds as though with the one you mentioned if the database containing the token-room pairing got encrypted by ransomware they'd have issues generating new keys though. Or do you mean all the tokens were the same for all cards and only the increment changed?
When you check in the front desk literally generates a new key. That key gets put on your card and gets put on the lock on your room. If it wasn't on the network then they'd have to send someone up and go through the process of putting the key code on the lock so your card would work.
Something about it's actually less secure to use physical keys and virtual ones. I mean even years ago they switched away from physical keys to cards because in the past you only needed to have the key copied and then it was good for that room until they thought to change the locks. (Which given they're physical wasn't going to happen because that cost money.) The new key system they basically generate a new key and put it on the card and publish it to the lock in your room every single time a new guest checks in.(So you take the key card with you when you leave? Good luck getting back into your old room because the system knows the key is expired.) Sure you can swipe the key card and copy it but that will only work until the guest checks out or asks the manager to put a new code on the lock.
Just to add on what other have said if you run at 5 PSI you could build the capsule to hold less pressure which means it's lighter. You build it lighter that in turn means you can use less fuel to get the capsule into space which is a big thing given how much fuel you need to get those things up. (You know, given that you're basically using a lot of what are effectively explosives to get those things up there using some pure oxygen seems safe in comparison.) As for why pure oxygen at lift off it's for one because they wanted to wash out as much nitrogen from the astronauts bodies as possible before they got into space so they wouldn't get the bends, which btw isn't nitrogen narcosis. Nitrogen narcosis is when there's too much nitrogen dissolved in your blood which you get from breathing air at high pressure. (More nitrogen than normal gets dissolved in your tissues.) The bends happens when pressure is dropped and bubbles of previously dissolved nitrogen come out of solution and form in your tissues. This would happen even if you had a normal amount of nitrogen in you due to breathing air at 1 atm and then you dropped the pressure to 1/3 atm of pure oxygen. By breathing pure oxygen at 1 atm you could get at least some of that nitrogen out then when you got into space they could drop the pressure and you would have nitrogen bubbles form in your body.
So the big problem I see with H1B's is they're tied to one company and get kicked out if they get fired. (Which makes them not want to look for another job.) So change things so that after a very short time period, say 3-6 months, they're an immigrant like anybody else and can stay for 5-10 years. I want them to start looking for a new job if the company that hired them is screwing them over. Oh and if we see you losing all your H1B's to other companies I would want the feds to not give you more of them. (Because it would be a clear indication you're fucking everybody over and don't deserve more.)
I mean reading about programming from a guy that has on more than one occasion talked about virtual memory but literally has no clue about what it actually is makes me a little dubious. Anyway aren't they still sell tens of millions of PC/Laptops every year? They're just not replacing them every 2 years since a 5 year old laptop/desktop is good enough these days. (Can't wait until he'll say tablets are dead when they've just reached saturation as well.)
Actually now that I think of it wouldn't lye work? I mean you bubble the CO2 through water to get carbonic acid.( H2CO3) Then apply NaOH to get NaHCO3 and water. Anyway wonder what chemical they're using for their sodium source.
Given that there's 3 super cars that are hybrids(McLaren P1, Porsche 918, Ferrari La Ferrari) I'm very interested how the first hybrid sport/muscle/pony car regular people can afford will turn out. Not expecting super car performance but if done right it could be quite a car.
Unfortunately SCNT, IE therapeutic cloning, requires quite a bit of genetic engineering to pull off and last I checked genetically modified anything gets heavy resistance from the left. (Funny how both sides have a streak of naturalism running through them.)
All those "smart" people on the McLaughlin Group talked about how apple and the like would put that in their phones that would let the government in while keeping it otherwise safe.
Yes I'm being sarcastic. (I've never seen a better example of the "Murray Gell-Mann Amnesia effect" in my life FWIW.)
Actually you are. The big complaint about the electoral college is that it weighs certain states more heavily than others. (Swing states) The primary process also has a similar issue but there are now they're caused by two issues. Swing states are still an issue but voting order is now another issue. Doing badly early in say Iowa and New Hampshire can knock out a candidate that might have been stronger later on which would give those states more political power. (Neither of which is a large state.) By the time California gets around to voting in June its effect is effectively meaningless even though it has the most delegates because the contest is effectively over.
Yes I realize the chances that this will be changed are near zero but still easier, or actually a better way to say it would be less difficult than actually changing the electoral process. (I mean other than that end round with the electoral college compact.) I say that because again it's easier to get one side to make a change to how they do things than changing the electoral system which would require congress and state legislatures and the votes of both republicans and democrats to get it to happen. Of course I'm also not one to call the electoral college result "bogus" since both sides knew the rules of the game and played it according to the rules. (Calling it bogus because "oh popular vote is the real vote" is another lie people repeat without thinking. I mean unless you think campaigning doesn't work.)
That's true. If you look at the stuff on Wikipedia it's 4 cows that tested positive and 3 people in the US with vCJD.(Although to be fair the tests on the cows apparently will always report negative on animals below a certain age.) However when you do a bit deeper digging with a link to the CDC you find all 3 people almost certainly got it from European beef. If I remember correctly 2 were British nationals and the other was a Saudi national.
You're making my point for me. The dems are complaining how the electoral college is unfair and gives too much weight to small states. Like you've pointed out, New Hampshire. Just another example of how their primary process gives weight to smaller states but in this case is a more extreme example. Just to be clear I don't think they'd actually do anything, saying electoral college is just a way for them to complain about something they know won't change. (It would be far easier to change the primary process if they really cared than the general election.)
They pretty much use a similar system to pick their candidate for the election. In an odd coincidence she lost the 2008 primary even though she "won" the popular vote. If the dems think the electoral college sucks they can do a test run and show everybody how well the popular vote would work by using it in their primaries. Have the primaries all on one day and popular vote decides the winner. Lets see how that works out.
It's too bad that there's no massive network of interconnected computers that researchers could have release all their research in all sciences over the past 20+ years openly for all of mankind to benefit from instead of having to keep it at the mercy of scientific journals. If something like that existed then it would basically be impossible to censor as it would spread and be archived all over the world. Oh well, back on the internet to watch cat videos.
Among the horrors were the notion that polling something at a rate of ~10KHz (as opposed to having a working interrupt system) would be a fine solution for a desktop app
Holy crap, you had an engineer do that to you too? I had some form of engineer (can't quite find out if it was an aerospace or mechanical engineer though, brags a lot.) who refuses to use anything but polling. Hell, they used a bool as their form of thread synchronization in C++. (Oh, that's why the app crashed every so often.)
1 It must work fast since the worst part is a day or 2 and it's gone in 7 if you do nothing.
2 It must be cheap since if you do nothing most of the time it'll go away.
3 It must be very safe because if you do nothing most of the time it'll go away.
Those 3 reasons are probably the big ones why it didn't get developed before. (Since it'd be hard to make something that safe that worked that quickly and little money in the end.)
1 Not being careful with floats. (Those can totally bite you including using floats when you should have used an int/uint type)
2 Developers who decide to reinvent the wheel because "They know best". (Just dealing with code where somebody decided I don't want to use the built in stuff, I'm going to do my own date time stuff which constantly has issue. Makes you pull your hair out.)
if we had the popular vote. To cut to the chase electoral college vs popular vote is how you keep "Score" in the "Game" of "US Presidential Elections". You "play" the "Game" and "Score" via campaigning. If you change the rules of the game you change how the game is played. This pretty much means they'd campaign differently, mostly to avoid being blown out in the north east and California. I mean unless you think something crazy like campaigning doesn't work or something.
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Very informative. Sounds like the key card system I was working on was a bit different since those things were on the network. Actually it sounds as though with the one you mentioned if the database containing the token-room pairing got encrypted by ransomware they'd have issues generating new keys though. Or do you mean all the tokens were the same for all cards and only the increment changed?
When you check in the front desk literally generates a new key. That key gets put on your card and gets put on the lock on your room. If it wasn't on the network then they'd have to send someone up and go through the process of putting the key code on the lock so your card would work.
Something about it's actually less secure to use physical keys and virtual ones. I mean even years ago they switched away from physical keys to cards because in the past you only needed to have the key copied and then it was good for that room until they thought to change the locks. (Which given they're physical wasn't going to happen because that cost money.) The new key system they basically generate a new key and put it on the card and publish it to the lock in your room every single time a new guest checks in.(So you take the key card with you when you leave? Good luck getting back into your old room because the system knows the key is expired.) Sure you can swipe the key card and copy it but that will only work until the guest checks out or asks the manager to put a new code on the lock.
Just to add on what other have said if you run at 5 PSI you could build the capsule to hold less pressure which means it's lighter. You build it lighter that in turn means you can use less fuel to get the capsule into space which is a big thing given how much fuel you need to get those things up. (You know, given that you're basically using a lot of what are effectively explosives to get those things up there using some pure oxygen seems safe in comparison.) As for why pure oxygen at lift off it's for one because they wanted to wash out as much nitrogen from the astronauts bodies as possible before they got into space so they wouldn't get the bends, which btw isn't nitrogen narcosis. Nitrogen narcosis is when there's too much nitrogen dissolved in your blood which you get from breathing air at high pressure. (More nitrogen than normal gets dissolved in your tissues.) The bends happens when pressure is dropped and bubbles of previously dissolved nitrogen come out of solution and form in your tissues. This would happen even if you had a normal amount of nitrogen in you due to breathing air at 1 atm and then you dropped the pressure to 1/3 atm of pure oxygen. By breathing pure oxygen at 1 atm you could get at least some of that nitrogen out then when you got into space they could drop the pressure and you would have nitrogen bubbles form in your body.
So the big problem I see with H1B's is they're tied to one company and get kicked out if they get fired. (Which makes them not want to look for another job.) So change things so that after a very short time period, say 3-6 months, they're an immigrant like anybody else and can stay for 5-10 years. I want them to start looking for a new job if the company that hired them is screwing them over. Oh and if we see you losing all your H1B's to other companies I would want the feds to not give you more of them. (Because it would be a clear indication you're fucking everybody over and don't deserve more.)
I mean reading about programming from a guy that has on more than one occasion talked about virtual memory but literally has no clue about what it actually is makes me a little dubious. Anyway aren't they still sell tens of millions of PC/Laptops every year? They're just not replacing them every 2 years since a 5 year old laptop/desktop is good enough these days. (Can't wait until he'll say tablets are dead when they've just reached saturation as well.)
Actually now that I think of it wouldn't lye work? I mean you bubble the CO2 through water to get carbonic acid.( H2CO3) Then apply NaOH to get NaHCO3 and water. Anyway wonder what chemical they're using for their sodium source.
Since it's sodium bicarbonate. I guess they could get it from sea water but then I'd wonder what happens to the left over chloride ions.
Given that there's 3 super cars that are hybrids(McLaren P1, Porsche 918, Ferrari La Ferrari) I'm very interested how the first hybrid sport/muscle/pony car regular people can afford will turn out. Not expecting super car performance but if done right it could be quite a car.
Unfortunately SCNT, IE therapeutic cloning, requires quite a bit of genetic engineering to pull off and last I checked genetically modified anything gets heavy resistance from the left. (Funny how both sides have a streak of naturalism running through them.)
All those "smart" people on the McLaughlin Group talked about how apple and the like would put that in their phones that would let the government in while keeping it otherwise safe. Yes I'm being sarcastic. (I've never seen a better example of the "Murray Gell-Mann Amnesia effect" in my life FWIW.)
No, I am not. I really am not.
Actually you are. The big complaint about the electoral college is that it weighs certain states more heavily than others. (Swing states) The primary process also has a similar issue but there are now they're caused by two issues. Swing states are still an issue but voting order is now another issue. Doing badly early in say Iowa and New Hampshire can knock out a candidate that might have been stronger later on which would give those states more political power. (Neither of which is a large state.) By the time California gets around to voting in June its effect is effectively meaningless even though it has the most delegates because the contest is effectively over.
Yes I realize the chances that this will be changed are near zero but still easier, or actually a better way to say it would be less difficult than actually changing the electoral process. (I mean other than that end round with the electoral college compact.) I say that because again it's easier to get one side to make a change to how they do things than changing the electoral system which would require congress and state legislatures and the votes of both republicans and democrats to get it to happen. Of course I'm also not one to call the electoral college result "bogus" since both sides knew the rules of the game and played it according to the rules. (Calling it bogus because "oh popular vote is the real vote" is another lie people repeat without thinking. I mean unless you think campaigning doesn't work.)
Was public relations deciding it was ok to launch the shuttle when the engineers kept telling them it was too cold.
That's true. If you look at the stuff on Wikipedia it's 4 cows that tested positive and 3 people in the US with vCJD.(Although to be fair the tests on the cows apparently will always report negative on animals below a certain age.) However when you do a bit deeper digging with a link to the CDC you find all 3 people almost certainly got it from European beef. If I remember correctly 2 were British nationals and the other was a Saudi national.
There has never been a case of vCJD associated with US or Australian beef. If I remember right all case were associated with European beef.
You're making my point for me. The dems are complaining how the electoral college is unfair and gives too much weight to small states. Like you've pointed out, New Hampshire. Just another example of how their primary process gives weight to smaller states but in this case is a more extreme example. Just to be clear I don't think they'd actually do anything, saying electoral college is just a way for them to complain about something they know won't change. (It would be far easier to change the primary process if they really cared than the general election.)
They pretty much use a similar system to pick their candidate for the election. In an odd coincidence she lost the 2008 primary even though she "won" the popular vote. If the dems think the electoral college sucks they can do a test run and show everybody how well the popular vote would work by using it in their primaries. Have the primaries all on one day and popular vote decides the winner. Lets see how that works out.
It's too bad that there's no massive network of interconnected computers that researchers could have release all their research in all sciences over the past 20+ years openly for all of mankind to benefit from instead of having to keep it at the mercy of scientific journals. If something like that existed then it would basically be impossible to censor as it would spread and be archived all over the world. Oh well, back on the internet to watch cat videos.
Among the horrors were the notion that polling something at a rate of ~10KHz (as opposed to having a working interrupt system) would be a fine solution for a desktop app
Holy crap, you had an engineer do that to you too? I had some form of engineer (can't quite find out if it was an aerospace or mechanical engineer though, brags a lot.) who refuses to use anything but polling. Hell, they used a bool as their form of thread synchronization in C++. (Oh, that's why the app crashed every so often.)
2 It must be cheap since if you do nothing most of the time it'll go away.
3 It must be very safe because if you do nothing most of the time it'll go away.
Those 3 reasons are probably the big ones why it didn't get developed before. (Since it'd be hard to make something that safe that worked that quickly and little money in the end.)
I mean floats are scientific notation on a computer with sig figs and such. That's stuff I would expect physicists (and chemists) to be experts at.
For example I worked on code where the guy decided he could use a Boolean (yes in C/C++) for thread synchronization. (Just no, please.)
2 Developers who decide to reinvent the wheel because "They know best". (Just dealing with code where somebody decided I don't want to use the built in stuff, I'm going to do my own date time stuff which constantly has issue. Makes you pull your hair out.)
1 who's my customer 2 What does he or she actually want.
if we had the popular vote. To cut to the chase electoral college vs popular vote is how you keep "Score" in the "Game" of "US Presidential Elections". You "play" the "Game" and "Score" via campaigning. If you change the rules of the game you change how the game is played. This pretty much means they'd campaign differently, mostly to avoid being blown out in the north east and California. I mean unless you think something crazy like campaigning doesn't work or something.