Block images from stock image servers? They're annoying on all news sources/blogs, not just slashdot beta.
Replace each stock image with the top result from a google image search for "stick figure" and the ALT text? Might as well have fun with it.
Replace "on hover" and "on mouseover" with "on click"? Just because I ran my pointer over a menu bar as opposed to navigating around it does not mean my desire was to spend the next 10 seconds trying to get the resulting popup menu to go away.
Several sites that have pay walled PDFs somehow manage to get the contents of those PDFs crawled by Google (probably others as well). Google has rules against this,.
Really? I would have thought they would be fine with it; Google Scholar would have been hamstrung from the get go if they didn't present results from paywalled databases, and Google Books is a similar situation for books under copyright.
Working breeds are a different story, but bulldogs, daschunds, and other exaggerated breeds in the US are still problematic even if they aren't bred for competition.
For decades now reputable breeders have been turning dogs into unhealthy freakshow breeds that can't breathe, can't jump, can't run, and can't give birth without a c-section. I'm not sure that's a recommendation.
Vets do sell a lot of questionable shit, like lysine for for feline herpesvirus. The idea makes sense: in vitro you can disrupt herpesvirus reproduction by swamping it with lysine when it needs arginine. The first study that looked at it in actual cats sounded promising, so companies started bottling it and vets started selling it. Unfortunately pretty much all of the papers over the past 10 years have been inconclusive or negative - including the follow ups by the author of the original paper. Doesn't seem to get in the way of sales though.
. Why would anyone want to go through all of the effort of raising a puppy only to leave some simple but effective basic health maintenance up to chance?
People choose brachycephalic dog breeds that can't breathe freely without being intubated, breeds that go lame because of hip displasia, breeds that can't jump because their overelongated spines will fracture, and breeds that can only give birth by c-section. With some breeds down to 7 yrs average lifespan, I don't think "survival of the fittest" enters into the minds of some of the dog owners that do keep up with regular care for their pups.
There is ** very little ** science about long term storage - most of it from the military and most of it saying that the shelf life is quite a bit longer than advertised.
Actually there's quite a lot.Talk to a formulation chemist. Every drug formulation that is legal to sell has been left in storage at various temperatures and tested over time. Companies that have faked doing this have been banned from importing drugs to the US. Most drugs do just lose potency over time, but manufacturers have the goad of liability lawsuits when setting expiration dates. In general if you want something to last as long as possible: seal it tightly, put it in the dark at a constant temperature of -20 C. No defrosting.
Google removed App Ops for versions in an update for 4.42. If you don't have a rooted phone, the closest thing I've found to a solution is Mobiwol, a firewall which forces apps to connect to the internet through a VPN that doesn't go anywhere. You can choose to give apps their access to the outside world whenever they have focus, so at least they only spy on you when you're using them. Then the problem is: should you trust Mobiwol?
There is a much cheaper alternative when you have a warning 30 hrs in advance: flood all of the regional TV stations with PSAs that show how easy it is for vehicles (especially SUVs!) to lose control in just a little snow or ice, and how to control for it. Cutting down on the frequency of accidents by even a fraction would help keep traffic moving quite a bit.
If an attacker used software to make 10,000 attempts to decrypt a credit card number, for example, they would get back 10,000 different fake credit card numbers. “Each decryption is going to look plausible,”
This isn't done already???? I thought this was done all along with passwords and other short strings. I could see it being more difficult when the data is human generated passwords due to the bias in selecting words>syllables>numbers>punctuation, but still.
The patent did not prevent others from making the gene X, so I'm not sure how they 'patented a gene'.
Actually, the original patent did claim "making the gene X": a lot of the controversy was over whether creating an isolated gene or an isolated fragment of a gene qualifies as an invention. The court decided that isolated DNA does not qualify, but that cDNA (which has had at least one intervening sequence spliced out) does.
It seems unlikely that there is any chemical reaction that has not existed in nature somewhere, sometime..
Actually many of the conditions, catalysts, and chemicals used in chemical synthesis will never occur in nature, especially not at the purification levels necessary to get the reaction to run. On the other hand, there is evidence that cDNA created in the normal way from a naturally occurring gene (which is what most cDNA patents cover) has existed in nature due to recombination by viruses. Finding those naturally occurring cDNAs would be quite a fishing expedition though.
Defanged? This was just the shot over the bow. If Issa wants him out Congress will investigate Clapper right through the 2016 elections, whether or not he resigns before then.
Then there's the other problem: there's a documented higher incidence of colds and flu in open plan environments. It's hard to concentrate when your head is exploding or you lack the energy to get out of bed. They also find higher blood pressure and stress associated with open plan, but that probably has more to do with the "stuffed into a tiny space for budget reasons" implementations.
Management are the ones who would benefit most from an open plan: constant interruptions, keeping tabs on everything so you can keep everything under control: this is their bailiwick. A separate "mini conference room" for those occasions when they need uninterrupted concentration sounds about right.
Open offices encourages collaboration but discourages deep thinking. This has been my experience and there are studies that back this up.
In other words it sucks for things that require sustained concentration,.
Absolutely. If anything it's management that should be in the open plan environment: their jobs are the definition of continual multitasking, small interruptions, and needing to keep tabs on everything going on.
I could see that for content consumption, but for content creation and editing it still has quite a ways to go. Finger-touch is too imprecise for selecting text: my finger covers the entire word when I'm trying to put a cursor between two letters. A stylus is accurate enough and doesn't obstruct the view, but it's too slow if you have to pick it up and put it down to type. Typing on a screen will need some sort of feedback if you are going to type quickly and accurately without looking at the keyboard the entire time. Until those problems are solved that may be the future for computer funtime, but not for computer worktime.
Lenovo does that too, but if you disable them in the device settings for the (synaptics) touchpad driver. Regardless the corner and edge settings can be turned off in Windows.
You can turn off the corners and edges in PC settings > PC and devices > corners and edges. I leave the upper right for the search function and turn the rest off. If the samsung has a synaptics touchpad you might try using the driver intended for a different laptop; the new synaptics touchpads are pretty well behaved on the Yogas.
One thing I do NOT like are the hot corners - they are finicky and pop out all the time when I don't want them. they also are confusing with multiple monitor setups.
Agreed. Back when they were introduced in OS X years ago I ended up turning off all but one; did pretty much the same for windows 8.1.
What I don't get is why would any company bother to deal with paper money
Because it helps them evade taxes? An IRS study a while back found that the majority of small businesses significantly underreport their income. Anecdotally, a friend who worked for 7 years doing valuations of small businesses for a business brokerage firm said the same thing. She said business owners were generally upset when they found out that their business was valued as a multiple of their reported income, not their actual income, and that no, they couldn't just start reporting all of their income; they would have to spread the change out over 3+ years or the IRS would catch on.
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Today's mobiles can handle the full site. Even small phones handle it just fine. There is no reason to have the mobile site any more.
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Oh, you mean a reason for users to use a mobile site.
Nevermind.
Hmm. So if learned a bit of CSS could I globally:
Block images from stock image servers? They're annoying on all news sources/blogs, not just slashdot beta.
Replace each stock image with the top result from a google image search for "stick figure" and the ALT text? Might as well have fun with it.
Replace "on hover" and "on mouseover" with "on click"? Just because I ran my pointer over a menu bar as opposed to navigating around it does not mean my desire was to spend the next 10 seconds trying to get the resulting popup menu to go away.
Despite the Dice developments, Slashdot acts as a filter that keeps posts on all of those topics down to a manageable level.
Hence the proposal to have a 3rd party hold all of the data NSA collects. If more profits are made it's all good?
They're probably using it as a way to justify the prices the institutions are forced to pay.
Several sites that have pay walled PDFs somehow manage to get the contents of those PDFs crawled by Google (probably others as well). Google has rules against this,.
Really? I would have thought they would be fine with it; Google Scholar would have been hamstrung from the get go if they didn't present results from paywalled databases, and Google Books is a similar situation for books under copyright.
Working breeds are a different story, but bulldogs, daschunds, and other exaggerated breeds in the US are still problematic even if they aren't bred for competition.
For decades now reputable breeders have been turning dogs into unhealthy freakshow breeds that can't breathe, can't jump, can't run, and can't give birth without a c-section. I'm not sure that's a recommendation.
Vets do sell a lot of questionable shit, like lysine for for feline herpesvirus. The idea makes sense: in vitro you can disrupt herpesvirus reproduction by swamping it with lysine when it needs arginine. The first study that looked at it in actual cats sounded promising, so companies started bottling it and vets started selling it. Unfortunately pretty much all of the papers over the past 10 years have been inconclusive or negative - including the follow ups by the author of the original paper. Doesn't seem to get in the way of sales though.
. Why would anyone want to go through all of the effort of raising a puppy only to leave some simple but effective basic health maintenance up to chance?
People choose brachycephalic dog breeds that can't breathe freely without being intubated, breeds that go lame because of hip displasia, breeds that can't jump because their overelongated spines will fracture, and breeds that can only give birth by c-section. With some breeds down to 7 yrs average lifespan, I don't think "survival of the fittest" enters into the minds of some of the dog owners that do keep up with regular care for their pups.
There is ** very little ** science about long term storage - most of it from the military and most of it saying that the shelf life is quite a bit longer than advertised.
Actually there's quite a lot.Talk to a formulation chemist. Every drug formulation that is legal to sell has been left in storage at various temperatures and tested over time. Companies that have faked doing this have been banned from importing drugs to the US. Most drugs do just lose potency over time, but manufacturers have the goad of liability lawsuits when setting expiration dates. In general if you want something to last as long as possible: seal it tightly, put it in the dark at a constant temperature of -20 C. No defrosting.
Google removed App Ops for versions in an update for 4.42. If you don't have a rooted phone, the closest thing I've found to a solution is Mobiwol, a firewall which forces apps to connect to the internet through a VPN that doesn't go anywhere. You can choose to give apps their access to the outside world whenever they have focus, so at least they only spy on you when you're using them. Then the problem is: should you trust Mobiwol?
There is a much cheaper alternative when you have a warning 30 hrs in advance: flood all of the regional TV stations with PSAs that show how easy it is for vehicles (especially SUVs!) to lose control in just a little snow or ice, and how to control for it. Cutting down on the frequency of accidents by even a fraction would help keep traffic moving quite a bit.
If an attacker used software to make 10,000 attempts to decrypt a credit card number, for example, they would get back 10,000 different fake credit card numbers. “Each decryption is going to look plausible,”
This isn't done already???? I thought this was done all along with passwords and other short strings. I could see it being more difficult when the data is human generated passwords due to the bias in selecting words>syllables>numbers>punctuation, but still.
The patent did not prevent others from making the gene X, so I'm not sure how they 'patented a gene'.
Actually, the original patent did claim "making the gene X": a lot of the controversy was over whether creating an isolated gene or an isolated fragment of a gene qualifies as an invention. The court decided that isolated DNA does not qualify, but that cDNA (which has had at least one intervening sequence spliced out) does.
It seems unlikely that there is any chemical reaction that has not existed in nature somewhere, sometime..
Actually many of the conditions, catalysts, and chemicals used in chemical synthesis will never occur in nature, especially not at the purification levels necessary to get the reaction to run. On the other hand, there is evidence that cDNA created in the normal way from a naturally occurring gene (which is what most cDNA patents cover) has existed in nature due to recombination by viruses. Finding those naturally occurring cDNAs would be quite a fishing expedition though.
Defanged? This was just the shot over the bow. If Issa wants him out Congress will investigate Clapper right through the 2016 elections, whether or not he resigns before then.
After winning a $90M no-bid healthcare.gov contract Accenture should be hiring right about now ...
Then there's the other problem: there's a documented higher incidence of colds and flu in open plan environments. It's hard to concentrate when your head is exploding or you lack the energy to get out of bed. They also find higher blood pressure and stress associated with open plan, but that probably has more to do with the "stuffed into a tiny space for budget reasons" implementations.
Management are the ones who would benefit most from an open plan: constant interruptions, keeping tabs on everything so you can keep everything under control: this is their bailiwick. A separate "mini conference room" for those occasions when they need uninterrupted concentration sounds about right.
Open offices encourages collaboration but discourages deep thinking. This has been my experience and there are studies that back this up.
In other words it sucks for things that require sustained concentration, .
Absolutely. If anything it's management that should be in the open plan environment: their jobs are the definition of continual multitasking, small interruptions, and needing to keep tabs on everything going on.
I could see that for content consumption, but for content creation and editing it still has quite a ways to go. Finger-touch is too imprecise for selecting text: my finger covers the entire word when I'm trying to put a cursor between two letters. A stylus is accurate enough and doesn't obstruct the view, but it's too slow if you have to pick it up and put it down to type. Typing on a screen will need some sort of feedback if you are going to type quickly and accurately without looking at the keyboard the entire time. Until those problems are solved that may be the future for computer funtime, but not for computer worktime.
Lenovo does that too, but if you disable them in the device settings for the (synaptics) touchpad driver. Regardless the corner and edge settings can be turned off in Windows.
You can turn off the corners and edges in PC settings > PC and devices > corners and edges. I leave the upper right for the search function and turn the rest off. If the samsung has a synaptics touchpad you might try using the driver intended for a different laptop; the new synaptics touchpads are pretty well behaved on the Yogas.
One thing I do NOT like are the hot corners - they are finicky and pop out all the time when I don't want them. they also are confusing with multiple monitor setups.
Agreed. Back when they were introduced in OS X years ago I ended up turning off all but one; did pretty much the same for windows 8.1.
What I don't get is why would any company bother to deal with paper money
Because it helps them evade taxes? An IRS study a while back found that the majority of small businesses significantly underreport their income. Anecdotally, a friend who worked for 7 years doing valuations of small businesses for a business brokerage firm said the same thing. She said business owners were generally upset when they found out that their business was valued as a multiple of their reported income, not their actual income, and that no, they couldn't just start reporting all of their income; they would have to spread the change out over 3+ years or the IRS would catch on.