it's called salt moron. There's nothing unknown about it. If you place a certain quantity of salt (not necessarily sodium chloride) on some tissue and then put an ice cube on top of it you can cause cold burns.
The dissolution of sodium chloride (table salt) in water is an endothermic reaction, which will cause a cold burn. Other salts such as potassium chloride will cause exothermic reactions and result in a heat burn
Thermal burns cannot be caused by a hypnotist and an ice cube, that's something different. Even faulty equipment cannot cause this. The LED / laser inside the handheld device are designed only to output power in two states (on and off) and neglecting deliberate tampering wont exceed the power output in the on state. Even if the device were tampered with, it is highly unlikely that the LED or laser diode would be capable of handling the current provided by the battery for more than a split second before burning out. That's also assuming that the device is capable of putting out more power than it already is. In any case, simple electrical theory debunks this lawsuit.
Keeping complete bulk access data to large sites is usually cost prohibitive as these databases can get quite large quite fast. On larger sites the number of users who are actively logged in and the number of users who post anonymously (without logging in) make up for a very small set of the total viewership and thus it makes much more sense to track IPs this way. I cant think of very many web CMS applications that I've administered which dont support submission IP tracking in one way or another. As soon as you step away from the application and start viewing server/router/ISP data all you're getting is a diagnostic perspective at the network layer. This will at best show that communication took place between a client and the server, it wont show what data was transferred.
C code is supposed to be source portable across multiple environments running on similar architecture. As soon as you start crossing multiple architectures the code turns into a massive clusterfuck of precompiler directives.
I didn't mean to imply that they lost their citizenship, for obvious reasons voluntary intent has to be proven. I'm just saying that being an enemy combatant trumps being a US citizen for all considerations of the rules of engagement.
they may have developed such a technology at one point or another but no automated interceptor aircraft are employed at all. The US does employ automated defense systems such as the Phalanx CIWS but these still require human monitoring and wont engage large targets such as aircraft.
If an enemy combatant starts taking potshots across the boarder at US soldiers, escorts a convoy full of weapons destined for insurgents, encourages acts of terror or militancy and engages in these acts in a combat zone, region administered by martial law or region outside the jurisdiction of the united states but not maintained by any government (tribal regions of Pakistan) then they are an enemy and NOT a US Citizen. As a result, they are not afforded any of the protections under our constitution or laws.
I was having this exact discussion with my family a few days ago. The only difference between a market full of militants and a market full of civilians is the number of guns scavenged from their corpses.
I fail to see what the ACLU hopes to accomplish with this. The nationality of a target is really of little to no importance in this case and if anything should send up a red flag. I cant really think of many legitimate reasons a US born person should have be wandering around in the tribal regions of Pakistan. As has been said above, operational details are classified and exempt from the FOIA.
you have no idea what you are talking about. It is true that power output is independent of frequency but this is only in an ideal situation where the charge required to switch a transistor is zero. As the CPU frequency is increased, the time between stable outputs of each transistor in a chain must be decreased. The only way to decrease the time is to increase the rate at which the charge builds on the transistor base, this can only be increased by increasing the supply voltage. As the voltage is increased the power output increases EXPONENTIALLY for a fixed resistance (current = voltage squared divided by resistance without factoring in integrals). As for your electricity/heat thing you're just plain wrong, the supply voltage (amongst many others) are fixed. Voltage does not equal current. Voltage applied across a closed circuit results in current flowing across that same circuit. However, since the CPU is a discrete device and thus must be doing something when it is on it performs an OS specific "no-op" loop. In windows this is known as the "system idle process". This process just wastes time, it doesn't do any heavy lifting and as a result much of the CPU's hardware is left open (no current flowing across it) and thus, the total current flow is fairly low. Low current at a fixed voltage implies a very high resistance over the whole circuit which is analogous of parallel circuitry in which a number of the circuits are open. If current is not flowing through your CPU it certainly isn't flowing through your power supply either, and your utility provider certainly isn't counting it as used.
Unfortunately in the world of reality, the difference between Idle and Used CPU is at the very least money. My computer idles at ~180W use. When it's at 100% CPU, it's closer to 450W use.
If that CPU time is being used, it has to be paid for.
most consumer CPUs idle at ~40 watts and cap out around 95 watts under max theoretical load. That 450 watt PEAK power output is for system max load which never happens.
What software on windows is "so great/must have" that there isn't a viable alternative for other platforms. Windows has a bunch of bullshit software that isn't worth paying for besides custom in house apps.
Then why is every mac user I see running VMWare Fusion?
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it's called salt moron. There's nothing unknown about it. If you place a certain quantity of salt (not necessarily sodium chloride) on some tissue and then put an ice cube on top of it you can cause cold burns.
On TV or in real life? A lot of hypnotists aren't worth the salt they use in that trick
The dissolution of sodium chloride (table salt) in water is an endothermic reaction, which will cause a cold burn. Other salts such as potassium chloride will cause exothermic reactions and result in a heat burn
Thermal burns cannot be caused by a hypnotist and an ice cube, that's something different. Even faulty equipment cannot cause this. The LED / laser inside the handheld device are designed only to output power in two states (on and off) and neglecting deliberate tampering wont exceed the power output in the on state. Even if the device were tampered with, it is highly unlikely that the LED or laser diode would be capable of handling the current provided by the battery for more than a split second before burning out. That's also assuming that the device is capable of putting out more power than it already is. In any case, simple electrical theory debunks this lawsuit.
Keeping complete bulk access data to large sites is usually cost prohibitive as these databases can get quite large quite fast. On larger sites the number of users who are actively logged in and the number of users who post anonymously (without logging in) make up for a very small set of the total viewership and thus it makes much more sense to track IPs this way. I cant think of very many web CMS applications that I've administered which dont support submission IP tracking in one way or another. As soon as you step away from the application and start viewing server/router/ISP data all you're getting is a diagnostic perspective at the network layer. This will at best show that communication took place between a client and the server, it wont show what data was transferred.
C code is supposed to be source portable across multiple environments running on similar architecture. As soon as you start crossing multiple architectures the code turns into a massive clusterfuck of precompiler directives.
I didn't mean to imply that they lost their citizenship, for obvious reasons voluntary intent has to be proven. I'm just saying that being an enemy combatant trumps being a US citizen for all considerations of the rules of engagement.
they're not killing US citizens, they're killing enemy combatants
they may have developed such a technology at one point or another but no automated interceptor aircraft are employed at all. The US does employ automated defense systems such as the Phalanx CIWS but these still require human monitoring and wont engage large targets such as aircraft.
If an enemy combatant starts taking potshots across the boarder at US soldiers, escorts a convoy full of weapons destined for insurgents, encourages acts of terror or militancy and engages in these acts in a combat zone, region administered by martial law or region outside the jurisdiction of the united states but not maintained by any government (tribal regions of Pakistan) then they are an enemy and NOT a US Citizen. As a result, they are not afforded any of the protections under our constitution or laws.
I was having this exact discussion with my family a few days ago. The only difference between a market full of militants and a market full of civilians is the number of guns scavenged from their corpses.
man if our defences are running on Java/.NET we're seriously fucked!
I fail to see what the ACLU hopes to accomplish with this. The nationality of a target is really of little to no importance in this case and if anything should send up a red flag. I cant really think of many legitimate reasons a US born person should have be wandering around in the tribal regions of Pakistan. As has been said above, operational details are classified and exempt from the FOIA.
you mean they haven't copied one yet
yes but those childish dicks aren't capable of cracking DRM. The guys who are capable of removing it might actually go for something like this
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The site was located in the US initially when this suit was filed and was moved to Canada after an ISP pulled the plug
you have no idea what you are talking about. It is true that power output is independent of frequency but this is only in an ideal situation where the charge required to switch a transistor is zero. As the CPU frequency is increased, the time between stable outputs of each transistor in a chain must be decreased. The only way to decrease the time is to increase the rate at which the charge builds on the transistor base, this can only be increased by increasing the supply voltage. As the voltage is increased the power output increases EXPONENTIALLY for a fixed resistance (current = voltage squared divided by resistance without factoring in integrals). As for your electricity/heat thing you're just plain wrong, the supply voltage (amongst many others) are fixed. Voltage does not equal current. Voltage applied across a closed circuit results in current flowing across that same circuit. However, since the CPU is a discrete device and thus must be doing something when it is on it performs an OS specific "no-op" loop. In windows this is known as the "system idle process". This process just wastes time, it doesn't do any heavy lifting and as a result much of the CPU's hardware is left open (no current flowing across it) and thus, the total current flow is fairly low. Low current at a fixed voltage implies a very high resistance over the whole circuit which is analogous of parallel circuitry in which a number of the circuits are open. If current is not flowing through your CPU it certainly isn't flowing through your power supply either, and your utility provider certainly isn't counting it as used.
Unfortunately in the world of reality, the difference between Idle and Used CPU is at the very least money. My computer idles at ~180W use. When it's at 100% CPU, it's closer to 450W use.
If that CPU time is being used, it has to be paid for.
most consumer CPUs idle at ~40 watts and cap out around 95 watts under max theoretical load. That 450 watt PEAK power output is for system max load which never happens.
What software on windows is "so great/must have" that there isn't a viable alternative for other platforms. Windows has a bunch of bullshit software that isn't worth paying for besides custom in house apps.
Then why is every mac user I see running VMWare Fusion?