Otherwise, having the a vent above the filling station that goes outside should alleviate most any commercialized OMFG HYDROGEN BUILDUP NEXT TO THAT ARCING FLUORESCENT LAMP HRP DERP DERP worries
I remember watching one of the late Shuttle launches - between getting broadband in about 2005, and whenever the last Shuttle flight was. They did an extended hold at the built-in T-9 minutes (IIRC) hold point because of the detection of excessive hydrogen in one of the engine bays, suggestive of a leak.
Hydrogen is an easier gas to seal than helium. But it's still a bitch to seal.
If concert promoters want to prevent filming or photographing of concerts then they just need to tell people to leave their phones in their cars or at home and confiscate them if they're smuggled in, returning them after the concert.
You used the word "just". I take it that you've never had to deal with the safe storage of tens of thousands of small valuable items for tens of thousands of customers.
Here's something appropriate : lockers of 150h x 163w x 360d (mm), banks of 40 lockers. So you'd need 250 banks - for around a million quid. And you've got to deal with getting people to load their shit into these, remember to take the key ; not lose the key, then retrieve their shit at the end of the gig. Where you're going to place them... depends on your venue. What you're going to do about people who forget where their locker is... is your problem. What you're going to do about customers who forget to reclaim their goods... is your problem. What do you do with the 501st customer who forgot to leave their phone at home before walking (or taking the bus) to the venue - when you've only got 500 lockers...
There's a lot of stuff in your "just". I don't think you've thought through the logistics of your proposal.
I met the issue at heliports where people weren't allowed to take phones out to the oil rig - all our people were stone cold sober when they came back, and there were still several cases a day of someone forgetting to take their phone home with them. Why were phones not allowed? Because there had been cases of phones interfering with flight avionics, and also of phone batteries getting impacted in the baggage hold and smoldering. So for at least three years, taking a mobile phone onto the helicopter was banned. Flat out - no discussion - banned. But equally, since many people had to be flying for a full day to get to or from the heliport, they were expected to turn up to the heliport with a phone that they couldn't take to work with them.
Really, the "sealed pouch" solution someone else mentioned upthread - "yonder" or something like that - is the only practical solution. And they're probably going to lose 5 to 10% of their "pouches" at every event (they'l factor that into the cost, of course). I'm moderately surprised that there aren't any for sale on ebaY, and I'd be really surprised if that remained the case.
You know - I'm now almost intrigued enough about the construction to actually go to a gig for the first time in 20-odd years, just to steal one and figure out the closing mechanism. If the idea lasts long enough to come to this side of the Atlantic.
you just need a filter in front of the lens that will not pass i/r as it is not usable light for the CCD anyway.
Not true. You do remember that CCDs were originally developed for astronomical (and spy satellite) use, not for consumer products? IR sensitivity just wasn't considered a problem when the technology was invented, and it has only been seen as a problem as use has spread outside the design criteria into consumer use where there is a premium on producing "natural" images, with a colour balance comparable to the human eye. So people have been gluing IR filters onto CCD chips for the recent half of the technology's history, for this "human friendly" imaging.
Remember the repeated wailing and gnashing of teeth as NASA "fiddled with the colour balance" of the early images from the recent crop (herd? rove?) of Mars landers? That was a consequence of taking chips optimised for science (including lots of IR sensitivity), and trying to correct them to give an image as a human eye would see. I think that extra filters were added to (one of) the Curiosity cameras (the MastCam?) precisely to address this PR failing.
... and wait for the idiotic DRM take-downs / lawsuits for a selling an IR lens since it "facilities copyright infringement".
You know it will happen.
Yeah, in the same way that there was a door-to-door search of every house in the world in 1982, when the confiscated every VHA and BetaMax video recorder in the world.
Oh, hang on, tat didn't happen, not because the copyright agencies didn't want to do it, but because they went to court with a suit, it was tried, and they lost. The grounds on which they lost were largely, that there were "significant non-infringing (on copyright) uses of the technologies" (paraphrased).
Visual passing & IR-blocking, and Visual-blocking & IR-passing filters have been made in increasing numbers since (approximately) the 1880s for laboratory use, astronomical use, special effects photography, as elements of chemical analysis tools... and they're just the non-infringing uses that I've personally used them for.
Don't like it, want the phone, fuck off, refund the ticket,
Better be careful reading the Ts & Cs of the concert before you buy tickets then. If it says - even in the smallest of print on page 753 of the Ts & Cs - that "recording devices will not be allowed into the auditorium" (or however they phrase it), then that's it - there are no grounds for you to claim a refund. The other party to the contract may, out of "goodwill" choose to give you a refund, but they don't have to. They would have perfect right to tell you to fuck off too.
(What is this thing about recording gigs? OK, it's 20+ years since I went to a gig, but that's no reason to not remember it. Have they started putting lead into the water again?)
Analyzing the video stream for the do-not-film IR signal is non-trivial; i
... so you only do this analysis in the code block that starts the camera actually recording. If there is anything using the whole video stream (rather than, for example, doing light level checks by reading a couple of dozen pixels every second), then yes, it will be s big battery drain.
All of which worries me not - I've never owned an Apple phone, and having used their computers, I probably never will do. And I've got a couple of smartphone-like devices with recording capabilities that definitely do not have this feature. So, Apple's patenting doesn't worry me.
For instance; if the nuclei of these isotopes are able to be influenced by the flow of a large enough number of neutrinos (for the sake of an example)
Unless my particle physics is wildly wrong, a neutrino interacting with a hadron (proton or neutron) would result in most cases in changing the proton into a neutron (and an anti-electron) or the neutron into a proton (and an electron). At which point, you're no longer talking about a nucleus of Ra-224 (or the Ba analogue).
At this size range, interactions are quantized. You can't have an arbitrarily small interaction. The lowest spaced gaps between energy levels in heavy metal nuclei is equivalent to the energy of X-ray photons.
It's physics and chemistry; it's not time variable. More to the point, process plant gets run for decades with the absolute minimum of maintenance spend (which is a cost ; businesses generally try to reduce costs. So regardless of what year it is today, the process plant was probably constructed 10 years ago and designed 5 years before that.
What can you tell us about a feminist gas extraction framework?
That physics and chemistry don't change because it's a feminist trying to get blown up.
Incidentally, the link you provided was a paywall, suggesting to me that you're probably on a college network.
If they pay offered is their mother getting a kife in the face... yeah, you're right - they'd continue growing their own. You'd have to burn down the hash farm first.
You've obviously spent more time in prison than I have.
would make it harder to attach something without it being at least a little more obvious, I would think.
Oh, I see what you mean. Well, it's an idea. Whether it'd get past Marketing is another question - the loss of revenue from the lost advertising space would be catastrophic. Or detectable.
and could be shown as a suggested friend to others.
Correct me if I'm wrong (it's about a year since I closed my Facebook account, and maybe 3 or 4 years since I added a "friend" to it, so I may be remembering it wrong), but doesn't the user have to actually log in and respond to a "friend request" in some way?
Even if I did have an account, and installed the app on my phone (why? it's got a web page, so use that, surely?), I'd have to turn on the location feature for the phone to know where I am. Which I only do when I don't know where I am.
Why not make the front of the ATM and especially the card reader section out of clear plastic?
The number of prople who put either the ATM or their card "out of order" by pushing the card into the cash-dispensing slot, or the receipt printing slot would vastly increase.
You note that part of this machine is made of translucent plastic - and is taken advantage of by the skimmer's designer.
The skimmer and head are temporary installations. Typically they'll be installed, then removed after a few hours so the skimmer can be put onto another ATM (of the right cosmetic type) while the data is read and cards cloned to drain the susceptible card's accounts. Using a glue that comes off easily and leaves no suspicious residues to alert cleaning staff would move happen pretty fast.
Though these aren't very expensive bits of equipment (in cash value), since they'll often contain fingerprints, DNA, and possibly supplier information, then you really don't want them to come into the hands of the police. As an installer/ retriever, you'll get one level of beating for being spotted, but a very different - potentially fatal - beating if your Big Boss loses the man who builds his skimmers. Or even worse - making that translucent green shroud is going to be a custom, and very specific job. So the police would love to find the injection-moulding factory (or other technique, or even just the plastics supplier) that produced them.
Look at the video - the skimmer is in a green part that looks exactly identical to the original item as it's an overlay. No visual system would have caught it...
On the other hand, the operations to INSTALL the skimmer head and PIN-watcher would have been considerably different to a normal transaction. Which would also give you video of the people installing and retrieving the skimmer hardware. Good for evidence - though these would be cannon-fodder personnel anyway.
Further to the (accurate) comments down-thread about opportunity cost and the differences between IR optic and Vis-UV optics, there is also a genuine issue over telemetry resources. The global network of antennae to send and receive data to and from the Hubble are shared with other projects and their time is a significant resource constraint too.
While Hubble sees the cosmos in visible and ultraviolet light, JWST operates in the infrared.
Hubble has significant IR capability too, but not as deep into the IR as JWST. for reasons described by other contributors.
There are at least three : the ASCII one which fulfils the logical job of an indicator of possession (which Slashdot can handle), the single quote mark (as a pair of delimiters for indirectly quoted speech, opening and closing versions). Depending on how one's keyboard mapping is set up, the keyboard characters may use one of the three, or application-level software may see an ASCII apostrophe, and deduce from context that the opening or losing single-quote mark is intended, and substitute that for what was typed.
Accents - including grave and acute - and other diacritic marks are a separate issue - they'd typically be included in a sequence like [character][backspace][diacritic]. These may be visually indistinguishable from an ASCII apostrophe, opening single quote or closing single quote. And, of course, it's always possible for people to have their keyboards or applications set up to (wrongly) replace an apostrophe with a closing quote.
It is now, and has been for years a mess. Which does not excuse Slashcode's inability to handle input outside the bottom 254 characters of the available character set. It is not, actually, rocket science.
I routinely have to hunt around the keyboard to spell a colleague's name correctly, as it includes an s-circumflex character. And that's in a Latin script, not even a Cyrillic one.
I think the OP was in America (though that may not be his or her normal residence), and so be even more fucked for medical treatment options than most inhabitants of that country.
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I remember watching one of the late Shuttle launches - between getting broadband in about 2005, and whenever the last Shuttle flight was. They did an extended hold at the built-in T-9 minutes (IIRC) hold point because of the detection of excessive hydrogen in one of the engine bays, suggestive of a leak.
Hydrogen is an easier gas to seal than helium. But it's still a bitch to seal.
You used the word "just". I take it that you've never had to deal with the safe storage of tens of thousands of small valuable items for tens of thousands of customers. Here's something appropriate : lockers of 150h x 163w x 360d (mm), banks of 40 lockers. So you'd need 250 banks - for around a million quid. And you've got to deal with getting people to load their shit into these, remember to take the key ; not lose the key, then retrieve their shit at the end of the gig. Where you're going to place them ... depends on your venue. What you're going to do about people who forget where their locker is ... is your problem. What you're going to do about customers who forget to reclaim their goods ... is your problem. What do you do with the 501st customer who forgot to leave their phone at home before walking (or taking the bus) to the venue - when you've only got 500 lockers ...
There's a lot of stuff in your "just". I don't think you've thought through the logistics of your proposal.
I met the issue at heliports where people weren't allowed to take phones out to the oil rig - all our people were stone cold sober when they came back, and there were still several cases a day of someone forgetting to take their phone home with them. Why were phones not allowed? Because there had been cases of phones interfering with flight avionics, and also of phone batteries getting impacted in the baggage hold and smoldering. So for at least three years, taking a mobile phone onto the helicopter was banned. Flat out - no discussion - banned. But equally, since many people had to be flying for a full day to get to or from the heliport, they were expected to turn up to the heliport with a phone that they couldn't take to work with them.
Really, the "sealed pouch" solution someone else mentioned upthread - "yonder" or something like that - is the only practical solution. And they're probably going to lose 5 to 10% of their "pouches" at every event (they'l factor that into the cost, of course). I'm moderately surprised that there aren't any for sale on ebaY, and I'd be really surprised if that remained the case.
You know - I'm now almost intrigued enough about the construction to actually go to a gig for the first time in 20-odd years, just to steal one and figure out the closing mechanism. If the idea lasts long enough to come to this side of the Atlantic.
Not true. You do remember that CCDs were originally developed for astronomical (and spy satellite) use, not for consumer products? IR sensitivity just wasn't considered a problem when the technology was invented, and it has only been seen as a problem as use has spread outside the design criteria into consumer use where there is a premium on producing "natural" images, with a colour balance comparable to the human eye. So people have been gluing IR filters onto CCD chips for the recent half of the technology's history, for this "human friendly" imaging.
Remember the repeated wailing and gnashing of teeth as NASA "fiddled with the colour balance" of the early images from the recent crop (herd? rove?) of Mars landers? That was a consequence of taking chips optimised for science (including lots of IR sensitivity), and trying to correct them to give an image as a human eye would see. I think that extra filters were added to (one of) the Curiosity cameras (the MastCam?) precisely to address this PR failing.
Yeah, in the same way that there was a door-to-door search of every house in the world in 1982, when the confiscated every VHA and BetaMax video recorder in the world.
Oh, hang on, tat didn't happen, not because the copyright agencies didn't want to do it, but because they went to court with a suit, it was tried, and they lost. The grounds on which they lost were largely, that there were "significant non-infringing (on copyright) uses of the technologies" (paraphrased).
Visual passing & IR-blocking, and Visual-blocking & IR-passing filters have been made in increasing numbers since (approximately) the 1880s for laboratory use, astronomical use, special effects photography, as elements of chemical analysis tools ... and they're just the non-infringing uses that I've personally used them for.
Better be careful reading the Ts & Cs of the concert before you buy tickets then. If it says - even in the smallest of print on page 753 of the Ts & Cs - that "recording devices will not be allowed into the auditorium" (or however they phrase it), then that's it - there are no grounds for you to claim a refund. The other party to the contract may, out of "goodwill" choose to give you a refund, but they don't have to. They would have perfect right to tell you to fuck off too.
(What is this thing about recording gigs? OK, it's 20+ years since I went to a gig, but that's no reason to not remember it. Have they started putting lead into the water again?)
... so you only do this analysis in the code block that starts the camera actually recording. If there is anything using the whole video stream (rather than, for example, doing light level checks by reading a couple of dozen pixels every second), then yes, it will be s big battery drain.
All of which worries me not - I've never owned an Apple phone, and having used their computers, I probably never will do. And I've got a couple of smartphone-like devices with recording capabilities that definitely do not have this feature. So, Apple's patenting doesn't worry me.
Unless my particle physics is wildly wrong, a neutrino interacting with a hadron (proton or neutron) would result in most cases in changing the proton into a neutron (and an anti-electron) or the neutron into a proton (and an electron). At which point, you're no longer talking about a nucleus of Ra-224 (or the Ba analogue).
At this size range, interactions are quantized. You can't have an arbitrarily small interaction. The lowest spaced gaps between energy levels in heavy metal nuclei is equivalent to the energy of X-ray photons.
I saw the paper and it's discussion when it was published. Insane. And deeply bizarre.
It's physics and chemistry; it's not time variable. More to the point, process plant gets run for decades with the absolute minimum of maintenance spend (which is a cost ; businesses generally try to reduce costs. So regardless of what year it is today, the process plant was probably constructed 10 years ago and designed 5 years before that.
That physics and chemistry don't change because it's a feminist trying to get blown up.
Incidentally, the link you provided was a paywall, suggesting to me that you're probably on a college network.
If they pay offered is their mother getting a kife in the face ... yeah, you're right - they'd continue growing their own. You'd have to burn down the hash farm first.
You've obviously spent more time in prison than I have.
Oh, I see what you mean. Well, it's an idea. Whether it'd get past Marketing is another question - the loss of revenue from the lost advertising space would be catastrophic. Or detectable.
Good grief - someone else who knows who Pixler was, and what his work suggests. That's a surprise!
Correct me if I'm wrong (it's about a year since I closed my Facebook account, and maybe 3 or 4 years since I added a "friend" to it, so I may be remembering it wrong), but doesn't the user have to actually log in and respond to a "friend request" in some way?
Even if I did have an account, and installed the app on my phone (why? it's got a web page, so use that, surely?), I'd have to turn on the location feature for the phone to know where I am. Which I only do when I don't know where I am.
I think you need to see a doctor, urgently. Falling asleep as soon as you get an erection may be a sign of a serious heart condition.
The number of prople who put either the ATM or their card "out of order" by pushing the card into the cash-dispensing slot, or the receipt printing slot would vastly increase.
You note that part of this machine is made of translucent plastic - and is taken advantage of by the skimmer's designer.
Though these aren't very expensive bits of equipment (in cash value), since they'll often contain fingerprints, DNA, and possibly supplier information, then you really don't want them to come into the hands of the police. As an installer/ retriever, you'll get one level of beating for being spotted, but a very different - potentially fatal - beating if your Big Boss loses the man who builds his skimmers. Or even worse - making that translucent green shroud is going to be a custom, and very specific job. So the police would love to find the injection-moulding factory (or other technique, or even just the plastics supplier) that produced them.
The criminals in charge of the skimming operation will simply move on to hiring Brexit Chavs from the local hash farm in the Council sink estate.
On the other hand, the operations to INSTALL the skimmer head and PIN-watcher would have been considerably different to a normal transaction. Which would also give you video of the people installing and retrieving the skimmer hardware. Good for evidence - though these would be cannon-fodder personnel anyway.
You've left a lot of them in airports?
Well, if you get them young enough ... but then, they're hardly Quebecois before they reach 10 years, are they?
Hubble has significant IR capability too, but not as deep into the IR as JWST. for reasons described by other contributors.
Given a choice between the advice of an AC and the advice of every encryption specialist I've heard of since Phil Zimmermann wrote his "snake oil" warnings in 1991 ... you know, I think I'll pass on the AC.
There are at least three : the ASCII one which fulfils the logical job of an indicator of possession (which Slashdot can handle), the single quote mark (as a pair of delimiters for indirectly quoted speech, opening and closing versions). Depending on how one's keyboard mapping is set up, the keyboard characters may use one of the three, or application-level software may see an ASCII apostrophe, and deduce from context that the opening or losing single-quote mark is intended, and substitute that for what was typed.
Accents - including grave and acute - and other diacritic marks are a separate issue - they'd typically be included in a sequence like [character][backspace][diacritic]. These may be visually indistinguishable from an ASCII apostrophe, opening single quote or closing single quote. And, of course, it's always possible for people to have their keyboards or applications set up to (wrongly) replace an apostrophe with a closing quote.
It is now, and has been for years a mess. Which does not excuse Slashcode's inability to handle input outside the bottom 254 characters of the available character set. It is not, actually, rocket science.
I routinely have to hunt around the keyboard to spell a colleague's name correctly, as it includes an s-circumflex character. And that's in a Latin script, not even a Cyrillic one.
I think the OP was in America (though that may not be his or her normal residence), and so be even more fucked for medical treatment options than most inhabitants of that country.
Subject says it all.