Correct. Believe it or not, there's a shitload of scammers that run various "collections". Registering with police requires you to provide purpose of the collection as well as contact information of people responsible if you actually do scam someone.
Some people appear to think that if someone is less intelligent, or informed, or just plain more gullible than average, it's completely okay to scam them. Most of the reasonable people disagree.
Every time Mt.Gox, by far the most popular and basically main exchange went down, bitcoin's trade value against hard currency went down hard. The rest of the factors are mostly irrelevant because their importance compared to relative value of easy, functional and legal way to exchange bitcoin for hard currency is simply too small.
Problem with mercury, specifically methyl mercury present in fish is that it naturally accumulates in the oceans as we burn coal, in addition to other waste sources not to mention volcanic activity which is also a major contributor. Also unlike many other heavy metals, it cannot be excreted from the body through metabolism at any reasonable rate once it becomes methyl mercury in fish. As a result it accumulates in the food chain.
The biggest problem for humans with methyl mercury, is that it's one of the few chemicals which can pass through blood-brain barrier, oxidise and then remain there for years.
Most other heavy metals you mentioned do not exhibit this behaviour. Cadmium for example, while extremely toxic does not accumulate, absorbs much worse than methyl mercury and can be excreted through both fecal and urinary paths at a reasonable rate. There's also the fact that a very large portion of population is in fact exposed to a significant dosage of cadmium on daily basis - smokers. If cadmium behaved like mercury, it would quickly accumulate and kill the smoker. Instead it gets pushed through bloodstream into liver and kidneys and excreted out of the body, rendering it reasonably harmless overall in comparison to other compounds in cigarette smoke, as evidenced by smokers generally being harmed by substances other than cadmium from their smoking habit.
So, what useful UI elements were removed this time? I think they're starting to run out of things to axe, but pretty much every time there is "UI improvements" in patch notes, it meat a useful element of UI was removed from the browser, often with no real means of putting it back in.
Well, good thing that 3.6.28 is still quite functional, and for all other needs, there's pale moon.
Indeed, that shows the reality of the modern Western democracy - voters do not get to choose who they would want. They get to choose from pool of candidates which often contains no truly desirable candidates for voters, but since voters know that one of these candidates will get the job regardless, they vote for one they see as least harmful to themselves.
Not all Western countries are there yet, but most are following US into that political hell hole as US is still widely seen as the leader of democratic movement around the world and as such, an example to be followed.
Because unlike the cheap crappy PCs, mac mini is an expensive crappy PC. Market for those is fairly limited, as people who go for "style over substance" who are the main apple audience generally want to have a more expensive and powerful machine at their disposal. At the same time people who for for substance over style will get a much cheaper PC which will likely perform just as well if not better in most tasks.
Remember, most of the low end stuff that is bought today is laptops. Desktop prices on sold machines are going up because people don't buy the crappy desktops all that much any more.
Scene releases are not a guarantee of quality, though they do tend to be quite good most of the time. They're more of a guarantee of a virus-free package if you get it from a trusted source. As for actual quality of material, there are plenty of examples of both epic failures as well as resounding successes. There are several cases of them missing something causing hilarious bugs, like happened in crysis 3 where cracked version could not progress beyond certain level and so on.
On the other hand, as parent pointed out, it also goes the other way. For example when ubisoft broke games with their crappy, malfunctioning always on DRM on single player games, it was scene that fixed the problem by building a DRM server emulator and releasing it as a working crack. It was an actual fix for many people who had huge stability problems with that game. There are several similar examples where massively dysfunctional DRM being stripped was an actual fix.
Same goes for movies as well. Many scene releases clearly lack any kind of QC, with things like audio going out of sync, or subtitles not being properly timed and so on. And at the same time, some others actually look better because people working on original are resource constrained and likely had to skip on quality and scene guys fixed it, like subtitle editing/timing and in some cases encoding issues.
Essentially that is why services like netflix and steam are so incredibly popular today. Even the best quality scene releases typically offer significantly less than a legit copy from those services, for a wide range of reasons ranging from quality of the actual product to various added value from additional services like steam's automatic patching and community features, or netflix's preview and streaming capability. Sure, you can get a copy off piratebay, but why bother with the annoying search, no preview, no multiplayer in games and so on when you can get legit copy that works better for reasonable sum and with no horrible strings attached?
And as GP basically points out, it's the rampant copyright infringement that we have to thank for these services. Without it, there would be absolutely no motivation for copyright holders not to squeeze us customers for all they possibly can with their artificial scarcity business model.
Because rape is about power over someone through direct violent sexual assault.
Copyright infringement that commonly happens without copyright holder ever knowing that it happened is about as analogous here as holocaust, AIDS, space flight, sunshine, tractor driving over near a beautiful field of sunflowers and you receiving payment for services rendered from copyright organisations.
How are these things analogous you ask? They are not, at all. Just like rape and copyright infringement.
I don't think you understand. Mercury is the main environmental toxin that concentrates higher in food chain (i.e. higher level predators like sharks or humans). As a result, unless you're dealing with eating produce from area with massive local leak of a Ni-Cd battery plant or something similar, by the time things like cadmium concentrate sufficiently in you to become harmful, you're likely going to be dying from acute mercury poisoning. That's why while lower level predators like crabs are exposed to variety of environmental load, the mercury is counted as the main limiter on how much of them a human can eat.
Shouldn't you start worrying about mercury first, second and third and everything else a distant twentieth or so, or is seafood pollution down under dramatically different from what we see here in Nordics? Because if I recall my biology lessons correctly, the main poison that does in fact concentrate up the in food chain is mercury.
I have something far more relevant for you then, and a real green cause (same meaning it had before when green movement was a force for good in this world, rather than a force for extracting donation money from idiots) to fight for instead of this idiocy.
Shipping. It needs to be dramatically changed.
Ships, as they move around the world bring everything with them to new habitats. New flora and fauna, including extremely harmful invasive species, diseases, micro-organisms that local flora has no way to compete against and so on. It has happened everywhere where shipping went, to the point where we started using extremely toxic paints on the larger ships to ensure that nothing near them lives. Unfortunately that also poisoned the wildlife, so much of it is not in use any more.
We need to push shipping companies to focus development on the kinds of paints for ships that would repel most of the transferring ability while not being poisonous to everything in large radius as well. We also need more stringent rules for bilge water handling for the same reason, as many species travel in that.
Start with that. This is a process that is known to have wiped out entire ecosystems and is actively continuing to do so, not just "maybe caused crabs in immediate vicinity develop holes in their shells that may be also caused by a disease, micro-organisms or something else entirely".
But modern green movement largely doesn't care beyond a few mandatory PR releases. Because shipping corporations are giants, and modern green movement goes to extremes to avoid messing with difficult causes that need complex explanation to the public, such as the cause-effect between shipping and marine life losses it causes. Not to mention many people like their cheap goods from China, which constraints on shipping would make much more expensive and in some cases downright unviable.
Instead they use terms like "waste dumping" to describe movement of soil, because that is easy - and people all over this slashdot story which are supposed to be smarter and more willing to fact check before raging are comparing it to things like Deepwater Horizon leak!
What exactly are they dredging up then? Do share, because nothing so far suggested that they are dredging anything unusual in that harbour.
Or are you one of the green movement zealots that, when confronted with situation where their ideology and facts are at odds, start attacking the messenger?
Smart enough to understand math and history of dredging unlike you. The mud and rocks will be spread fairly evenly along large surface at target area, as is typically done to avoid the main issue when moving soil in the ocean, nutrient loads.
And you expect to be taken seriously when you do not even bother to read the actual article? They are not dropping it on the coral at all. They are doing the standard dredging procedure, which is to lift the soil, move it to the place where it's going to be planted back and spread it across the area. This reduces any effect on nutrient load, and this will occur tens of kilometers away from nearest point of the coral presence.
Really, stop being the useful idiot for these people. Demand that they focus on real and actually difficult issues instead.
And that is why current green movement is shit. Reset your blind rage and read the actual story. They fucked with you by telling you it's "waste dumping".
What actually happens is that ocean soil is dug up to make room for harbour, and they need some place to put it back down on ocean floor. This soil is basically mud and rocks, and they are putting it back down in the spot with same mud and rocks.
So I'm sorry, but I'm the one actually looking at the cause, and you are the useful idiot that sees words "dumping waste" and immediately assigns parallels with actual waste dumping. And you are the type of person that modern green movement feeds these bullshit lines to. Because you don't read what is actually happening - you just read "waste dumping" and you start foaming at mouth in rage and call everyone who points out the facts of the matter that are in direct conflict with the PR line "useful idiots" without ever bothering to fact check.
Which is why this bullshit feeding continues. Thanks for enabling it!
Easily. I've seen the green movement fifteen years ago, and I've seen it today. Very different animals. Back then they fought for difficult but necessary causes - stopping acid rain, getting NOx/SO2 emission quotas, establishing wildlife sanctuaries.
Now that they won almost all of it, they found themselves with a lot of power, and only increasingly difficult to explain to the public - kind of causes. So instead they turned to things like these: "oh my god, they are taking seabed soil, lifting it to make harbour, moving it to a different spot in the ocean and putting it back on the ocean floor, this is DUMPING OF WASTE".
See I'm old enough to remember what "dumping of waste" actually meant back when green movement was legitimate. They would literally picked the current green movement for obvious misuse of their terminology which destroyed the value of their cause.
Now put your big boy pants on, stop reading sensationalist bullshit and read on what impact those concentrations actually have. Because the answer is there. None. We needed the most modern of the modern equipment to find those few atoms of cesium 137, which is what they test for because it's the one compound that is not naturally found in seawater, and they found a few atoms in a cubic meter.
To all life on this planet that has to deal with radioactive potassium in its cells which is required to sustain life, this concentration is not something they will ever notice.
Slashdot Mirror
Yes. It's called slashdot. You're stinking it up with your "beta beta blah blah blah" bullshit. Take it to the farmers for composting or something.
Good parenting means not letting your public schools become shit and not letting corporations take over your education system via backdoor like this.
I rest my case.
Correct. Believe it or not, there's a shitload of scammers that run various "collections". Registering with police requires you to provide purpose of the collection as well as contact information of people responsible if you actually do scam someone.
Some people appear to think that if someone is less intelligent, or informed, or just plain more gullible than average, it's completely okay to scam them. Most of the reasonable people disagree.
Actually, this scheme relies on reliable ability to trade virtual money for hard currency. This makes exchanges the natural single point of failure.
It's yet another variation of the old xkcd joke: https://xkcd.com/538/
Every time Mt.Gox, by far the most popular and basically main exchange went down, bitcoin's trade value against hard currency went down hard. The rest of the factors are mostly irrelevant because their importance compared to relative value of easy, functional and legal way to exchange bitcoin for hard currency is simply too small.
Indeed. It's a good thing that there's a lot of people like you in all those annoying countries who are annoyed by countries like yours.
It's people like you, the close adherents of core principle of Stalinism "no people, no problem" that are the reason why MAD exists to this day.
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Problem with mercury, specifically methyl mercury present in fish is that it naturally accumulates in the oceans as we burn coal, in addition to other waste sources not to mention volcanic activity which is also a major contributor. Also unlike many other heavy metals, it cannot be excreted from the body through metabolism at any reasonable rate once it becomes methyl mercury in fish. As a result it accumulates in the food chain.
The biggest problem for humans with methyl mercury, is that it's one of the few chemicals which can pass through blood-brain barrier, oxidise and then remain there for years.
Most other heavy metals you mentioned do not exhibit this behaviour. Cadmium for example, while extremely toxic does not accumulate, absorbs much worse than methyl mercury and can be excreted through both fecal and urinary paths at a reasonable rate. There's also the fact that a very large portion of population is in fact exposed to a significant dosage of cadmium on daily basis - smokers. If cadmium behaved like mercury, it would quickly accumulate and kill the smoker. Instead it gets pushed through bloodstream into liver and kidneys and excreted out of the body, rendering it reasonably harmless overall in comparison to other compounds in cigarette smoke, as evidenced by smokers generally being harmed by substances other than cadmium from their smoking habit.
So, what useful UI elements were removed this time? I think they're starting to run out of things to axe, but pretty much every time there is "UI improvements" in patch notes, it meat a useful element of UI was removed from the browser, often with no real means of putting it back in.
Well, good thing that 3.6.28 is still quite functional, and for all other needs, there's pale moon.
Indeed, that shows the reality of the modern Western democracy - voters do not get to choose who they would want. They get to choose from pool of candidates which often contains no truly desirable candidates for voters, but since voters know that one of these candidates will get the job regardless, they vote for one they see as least harmful to themselves.
Not all Western countries are there yet, but most are following US into that political hell hole as US is still widely seen as the leader of democratic movement around the world and as such, an example to be followed.
Kingdom for a mod point. That is about as informative and insightful as slashdot can get.
Because unlike the cheap crappy PCs, mac mini is an expensive crappy PC. Market for those is fairly limited, as people who go for "style over substance" who are the main apple audience generally want to have a more expensive and powerful machine at their disposal. At the same time people who for for substance over style will get a much cheaper PC which will likely perform just as well if not better in most tasks.
Remember, most of the low end stuff that is bought today is laptops. Desktop prices on sold machines are going up because people don't buy the crappy desktops all that much any more.
Unable?
How about "unwilling"?
Scene releases are not a guarantee of quality, though they do tend to be quite good most of the time. They're more of a guarantee of a virus-free package if you get it from a trusted source. As for actual quality of material, there are plenty of examples of both epic failures as well as resounding successes. There are several cases of them missing something causing hilarious bugs, like happened in crysis 3 where cracked version could not progress beyond certain level and so on.
On the other hand, as parent pointed out, it also goes the other way. For example when ubisoft broke games with their crappy, malfunctioning always on DRM on single player games, it was scene that fixed the problem by building a DRM server emulator and releasing it as a working crack. It was an actual fix for many people who had huge stability problems with that game. There are several similar examples where massively dysfunctional DRM being stripped was an actual fix.
Same goes for movies as well. Many scene releases clearly lack any kind of QC, with things like audio going out of sync, or subtitles not being properly timed and so on. And at the same time, some others actually look better because people working on original are resource constrained and likely had to skip on quality and scene guys fixed it, like subtitle editing/timing and in some cases encoding issues.
Essentially that is why services like netflix and steam are so incredibly popular today. Even the best quality scene releases typically offer significantly less than a legit copy from those services, for a wide range of reasons ranging from quality of the actual product to various added value from additional services like steam's automatic patching and community features, or netflix's preview and streaming capability. Sure, you can get a copy off piratebay, but why bother with the annoying search, no preview, no multiplayer in games and so on when you can get legit copy that works better for reasonable sum and with no horrible strings attached?
And as GP basically points out, it's the rampant copyright infringement that we have to thank for these services. Without it, there would be absolutely no motivation for copyright holders not to squeeze us customers for all they possibly can with their artificial scarcity business model.
Are you aware that answering your own sockpuppet is kinda silly and obvious, mr. "copyright infringement is rape"?
Because rape is about power over someone through direct violent sexual assault.
Copyright infringement that commonly happens without copyright holder ever knowing that it happened is about as analogous here as holocaust, AIDS, space flight, sunshine, tractor driving over near a beautiful field of sunflowers and you receiving payment for services rendered from copyright organisations.
How are these things analogous you ask? They are not, at all. Just like rape and copyright infringement.
I don't think you understand. Mercury is the main environmental toxin that concentrates higher in food chain (i.e. higher level predators like sharks or humans). As a result, unless you're dealing with eating produce from area with massive local leak of a Ni-Cd battery plant or something similar, by the time things like cadmium concentrate sufficiently in you to become harmful, you're likely going to be dying from acute mercury poisoning. That's why while lower level predators like crabs are exposed to variety of environmental load, the mercury is counted as the main limiter on how much of them a human can eat.
Shouldn't you start worrying about mercury first, second and third and everything else a distant twentieth or so, or is seafood pollution down under dramatically different from what we see here in Nordics? Because if I recall my biology lessons correctly, the main poison that does in fact concentrate up the in food chain is mercury.
I have something far more relevant for you then, and a real green cause (same meaning it had before when green movement was a force for good in this world, rather than a force for extracting donation money from idiots) to fight for instead of this idiocy.
Shipping. It needs to be dramatically changed.
Ships, as they move around the world bring everything with them to new habitats. New flora and fauna, including extremely harmful invasive species, diseases, micro-organisms that local flora has no way to compete against and so on. It has happened everywhere where shipping went, to the point where we started using extremely toxic paints on the larger ships to ensure that nothing near them lives. Unfortunately that also poisoned the wildlife, so much of it is not in use any more.
We need to push shipping companies to focus development on the kinds of paints for ships that would repel most of the transferring ability while not being poisonous to everything in large radius as well. We also need more stringent rules for bilge water handling for the same reason, as many species travel in that.
Start with that. This is a process that is known to have wiped out entire ecosystems and is actively continuing to do so, not just "maybe caused crabs in immediate vicinity develop holes in their shells that may be also caused by a disease, micro-organisms or something else entirely".
But modern green movement largely doesn't care beyond a few mandatory PR releases. Because shipping corporations are giants, and modern green movement goes to extremes to avoid messing with difficult causes that need complex explanation to the public, such as the cause-effect between shipping and marine life losses it causes. Not to mention many people like their cheap goods from China, which constraints on shipping would make much more expensive and in some cases downright unviable.
Instead they use terms like "waste dumping" to describe movement of soil, because that is easy - and people all over this slashdot story which are supposed to be smarter and more willing to fact check before raging are comparing it to things like Deepwater Horizon leak!
What exactly are they dredging up then? Do share, because nothing so far suggested that they are dredging anything unusual in that harbour.
Or are you one of the green movement zealots that, when confronted with situation where their ideology and facts are at odds, start attacking the messenger?
Smart enough to understand math and history of dredging unlike you. The mud and rocks will be spread fairly evenly along large surface at target area, as is typically done to avoid the main issue when moving soil in the ocean, nutrient loads.
Harbour. Big ships need to sail in and out. Dredging is the standard procedure ever since humanity started building ships bigger than dinghy.
There are no shallow water harbours at barrier reef. As a result, it's not inconvenient to move the soil there.
And you expect to be taken seriously when you do not even bother to read the actual article? They are not dropping it on the coral at all. They are doing the standard dredging procedure, which is to lift the soil, move it to the place where it's going to be planted back and spread it across the area. This reduces any effect on nutrient load, and this will occur tens of kilometers away from nearest point of the coral presence.
Really, stop being the useful idiot for these people. Demand that they focus on real and actually difficult issues instead.
And that is why current green movement is shit. Reset your blind rage and read the actual story. They fucked with you by telling you it's "waste dumping".
What actually happens is that ocean soil is dug up to make room for harbour, and they need some place to put it back down on ocean floor. This soil is basically mud and rocks, and they are putting it back down in the spot with same mud and rocks.
So I'm sorry, but I'm the one actually looking at the cause, and you are the useful idiot that sees words "dumping waste" and immediately assigns parallels with actual waste dumping. And you are the type of person that modern green movement feeds these bullshit lines to. Because you don't read what is actually happening - you just read "waste dumping" and you start foaming at mouth in rage and call everyone who points out the facts of the matter that are in direct conflict with the PR line "useful idiots" without ever bothering to fact check.
Which is why this bullshit feeding continues. Thanks for enabling it!
Easily. I've seen the green movement fifteen years ago, and I've seen it today. Very different animals. Back then they fought for difficult but necessary causes - stopping acid rain, getting NOx/SO2 emission quotas, establishing wildlife sanctuaries.
Now that they won almost all of it, they found themselves with a lot of power, and only increasingly difficult to explain to the public - kind of causes. So instead they turned to things like these: "oh my god, they are taking seabed soil, lifting it to make harbour, moving it to a different spot in the ocean and putting it back on the ocean floor, this is DUMPING OF WASTE".
See I'm old enough to remember what "dumping of waste" actually meant back when green movement was legitimate. They would literally picked the current green movement for obvious misuse of their terminology which destroyed the value of their cause.
Yes, they "impacted" it.
Now put your big boy pants on, stop reading sensationalist bullshit and read on what impact those concentrations actually have. Because the answer is there. None. We needed the most modern of the modern equipment to find those few atoms of cesium 137, which is what they test for because it's the one compound that is not naturally found in seawater, and they found a few atoms in a cubic meter.
To all life on this planet that has to deal with radioactive potassium in its cells which is required to sustain life, this concentration is not something they will ever notice.