How in the world is that the conclusion you came to? Hiroshima's Twitter handle, in this case, was simply the thing-of-value stolen by the extortionist. The story would have unfolded exactly the same way for a 2-digit Slashdot UID, or a valuable physical object, or just plain old cash. This story is about the method of extortion, not about the target.
If a friend says "I got mugged," do you reply "well, you shouldn't have been carrying a wallet"?
"It's entirely your fault that a thief held a gun to your wife's head and demanded your Babe Ruth-autographed baseball. If you didn't have a Babe Ruth-autographed baseball in the first place, it never would have happened."
how many National Security Letters they received, how many accounts were affected by NSLs, how many Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act orders were received (both for communications content and 'non-content'), and how many customers were targeted by FISA requests.
You'll notice that they covered that contingency, actually. They can report not only the number of letters, but the number of people affected by letters.
In 2012, the USGS estimated 71 billion tons of world reserves, where reserve figures refer to the amount assumed recoverable at current market prices; 0.19 billion tons were mined in 2011.[23]
Recent reports suggest that production of phosphorus may have peaked, leading to the possibility of global shortages by 2040.[24] In 2007, at the rate of consumption, the supply of phosphorus was estimated to run out in 345 years.[25] However, some scientists now believe that a "peak phosphorus" will occur in 30 years and that "At current rates, reserves will be depleted in the next 50 to 100 years."[26] Phosphorus comprises about 0.1% by mass of the average rock, and consequently the Earth's supply is vast, although dilute
"Peak phosphorus" sounds like "peak oil", but there does appear to be a number of people afraid of future scarcity. However, the ability to cheaply precipitate phosphorus out of sewage waste (and hopefully, with a few tweaks, out of agricultural runoff also), could significantly reduce dead zones, especially the Gulf of Mexico dead zone. That seems reason enough to pursue this.
Hrm,/. won't let me draw an ascii diagram. But Nazi jokes aside, no. The corners of the four Ls are pressed together at the center, so the whole thing looks like a +.
I like my company's open plan, too. Working in cubeville felt like I was in a pen - there was a subtle "what are you doing outside your cube? Your work isn't done yet!" vibe going on. It was dehumanizing.
At my current job, we have L-shaped desks arranged into plus-signs, with all the monitors at the center. So if you want human contact, all you have to do is lean back to talk to the guy next to you. If you don't want human contact, just don't talk to the guy next to you.
Now, I can definitely see how it can go bad. We keep peace and quiet because everyone in the room is also an engineer, and nobody wants to be Loud Howard. We keep our sales guys and people-on-the-phone-all-day in a different place. If those didn't happen, or if our "open office" was really just us being stuffed into a tiny space for budget reasons, then I would have a problem with it. But overall my experience has been very positive.
More than one worker drowned in concrete during the construction of the Hoover Dam, and there are bodies entombed in the blockwork.
Many workers died constructing the dam, yes. But none of them drowned in the concrete pours (they may have drowned in the mixing buckets; I don't know about that), and nobody is entombed in the blockwork. A human body is much weaker than concrete - a body in the mix would have compromised the structural integrity of that area. Even if someone had drowned in a pour, which would have been very difficult given that each pour only raised the concrete level by about an inch, the body would have been pulled out as an unacceptable structural risk.
Across the UK, kids are running to their parents crying "the porn filter won't let me play my video game!" This might actually increase support for the firewall...
That, or the right to go bowling on Tuesdays, it's a tough call.
Pretty much this. They need the money to pay their bowling league fees. The EU offered to pay enough for Tuesday/Thursday league nights, but nothing else. Russia offered to pay for four nights a week, including the cost of pizzas and beer, but with the caveat that they have to let Vladimir on their team, and if he doesn't feel like playing on a given night, then none of them can play.
Could you link your source? That seems low to me. It's been a while since I checked (I did all my research during my infestation in 2012), but IIRC nothing below 113F is lethal. I remember 60 minutes at 113F, 20 minutes at 140F, ~30 seconds at 160F, and instantaneous at 212F.
. But most of the time bed bugs are the result of just poor housekeeping in one place.
Which is flat out false. Bedbugs have nothing to do with cleanliness or housekeeping. They eat blood, not trash. They are attracted to you, not your mess.
It's completely and absolutely harmless for you, babies, pets, etc.
Once it's settled out of the air, sure. During application and until it settles, you should wear respiratory protection and keep kids/pets/etc out of the area. That pure, fine dust can and will cause inflammation of the respiratory tract if inhaled.
So he has a mechanical nose to detect them, and he has a point-and-shoot laser to kill them. Neither of those are a good idea.
First of all, the detector. This one's the better of the two ideas. If it can do all that a dog can do, then it's probably worth it for someone uber-paranoid or in a high-risk environment. But it's 3-4 times the price of a dog visit, so someone who just wants a quick check around the apartment is better off with the dog. And that's still with the big IF it can do it as well as a dog.
Oh, and his worries that a bug-dog will jump all over your furniture or eat poison are ludicrous. They're highly trained professionals, like their handlers. Not quite police-dog level, but close. A bug-dog that wrecks the place or eats poison will not be a bug-dog for long.
Next topic - the laser. First of all, his statement about industry-standard insecticides is wrong. Only some exterminators still use pesticides for bedbugs; the others use heat. If they do use pesticide, there are new ones out there that are extremely potent and will not likely need to be reapplied. But the go-to treatment now is heat, and they do it in a much more effective way than this dumb laser. Bedbugs want to survive just like any other living creature - they will run away from a targeted blast of heat, and they'll run someplace the laser can't reach them, like inside the walls (if they weren't there already, which they probably were). Effective heat treatments raise the entire interior temperature of your apartment/house above bug-lethal temperatures. There is no escape.
Don't buy from this guy. He knows a little about what he's talking about, but his solutions are the wrong solutions. If you think you have bedbugs, contact a professional pest control operator. They are extremely difficult to kill, and you will often only make the infestation worse if you try to DIY it.
I don't know about Muslims, and I don't have a reliable source for this. But I always heard that the Amish shave like that because in olden-days Europe, a moustache was a sign of military rank or status. They would keep their beards because it was a sign of being a man (they keep themselves clean-shaven until their wedding day, the day they become a man, and after that they never cut their beard), but as a symbol of pacifism they would specifically shave off their moustaches.
Do pigs fight the way deer do? Because deer are the most pointlessly violent animals I've ever seen (outside, arguably, humans). If there are two bucks and eight does in an area, the two bucks will fight for all eight. The loser will be horribly injured, maimed possibly to the point of death. The winner will also be injured, and will be so exhausted that he will mate with just one doe before collapsing. The other seven does are SOL.
Screw morphine. I've wondered why we don't just use nitrogen to suffocate them. There is no suffocation reflex, because the body's suffocation reflex is based on overabundance of CO2, not underabundance of O2. It's completely painless - they pass out within a minute and never wake up. In the oil and shipping industries we have "Nitrogen: The Silent Killer" posters plastered everywhere in enclosed at-risk spaces. I never understood why we deal with expensive drug cocktails when we have tanks of simple N2 ready to be used.
Obama is a very smart man. He's a scholar who taught Constitutional Law for twelve years. He campaigned on a reduction of surveillance and spying. Then, once President, he did a 180.
Something happened to make him change his mind. Was he corrupted by power? Are the monied interests that powerful that they made him deny what he'd been teaching for years? Or is there something else afoot?
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How in the world is that the conclusion you came to? Hiroshima's Twitter handle, in this case, was simply the thing-of-value stolen by the extortionist. The story would have unfolded exactly the same way for a 2-digit Slashdot UID, or a valuable physical object, or just plain old cash. This story is about the method of extortion, not about the target.
If a friend says "I got mugged," do you reply "well, you shouldn't have been carrying a wallet"?
"It's entirely your fault that a thief held a gun to your wife's head and demanded your Babe Ruth-autographed baseball. If you didn't have a Babe Ruth-autographed baseball in the first place, it never would have happened."
I'm willing to bet there'd be a $2 adapter for your old printer.
how many National Security Letters they received, how many accounts were affected by NSLs, how many Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act orders were received (both for communications content and 'non-content'), and how many customers were targeted by FISA requests.
You'll notice that they covered that contingency, actually. They can report not only the number of letters, but the number of people affected by letters.
In 2012, the USGS estimated 71 billion tons of world reserves, where reserve figures refer to the amount assumed recoverable at current market prices; 0.19 billion tons were mined in 2011.[23] Recent reports suggest that production of phosphorus may have peaked, leading to the possibility of global shortages by 2040.[24] In 2007, at the rate of consumption, the supply of phosphorus was estimated to run out in 345 years.[25] However, some scientists now believe that a "peak phosphorus" will occur in 30 years and that "At current rates, reserves will be depleted in the next 50 to 100 years."[26] Phosphorus comprises about 0.1% by mass of the average rock, and consequently the Earth's supply is vast, although dilute
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphorus#Occurrence.
"Peak phosphorus" sounds like "peak oil", but there does appear to be a number of people afraid of future scarcity. However, the ability to cheaply precipitate phosphorus out of sewage waste (and hopefully, with a few tweaks, out of agricultural runoff also), could significantly reduce dead zones, especially the Gulf of Mexico dead zone. That seems reason enough to pursue this.
400hp = about 300kW
Hrm, /. won't let me draw an ascii diagram. But Nazi jokes aside, no. The corners of the four Ls are pressed together at the center, so the whole thing looks like a +.
I like my company's open plan, too. Working in cubeville felt like I was in a pen - there was a subtle "what are you doing outside your cube? Your work isn't done yet!" vibe going on. It was dehumanizing.
At my current job, we have L-shaped desks arranged into plus-signs, with all the monitors at the center. So if you want human contact, all you have to do is lean back to talk to the guy next to you. If you don't want human contact, just don't talk to the guy next to you.
Now, I can definitely see how it can go bad. We keep peace and quiet because everyone in the room is also an engineer, and nobody wants to be Loud Howard. We keep our sales guys and people-on-the-phone-all-day in a different place. If those didn't happen, or if our "open office" was really just us being stuffed into a tiny space for budget reasons, then I would have a problem with it. But overall my experience has been very positive.
More than one worker drowned in concrete during the construction of the Hoover Dam, and there are bodies entombed in the blockwork.
Many workers died constructing the dam, yes. But none of them drowned in the concrete pours (they may have drowned in the mixing buckets; I don't know about that), and nobody is entombed in the blockwork. A human body is much weaker than concrete - a body in the mix would have compromised the structural integrity of that area. Even if someone had drowned in a pour, which would have been very difficult given that each pour only raised the concrete level by about an inch, the body would have been pulled out as an unacceptable structural risk.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoover_Dam#Concrete
Across the UK, kids are running to their parents crying "the porn filter won't let me play my video game!" This might actually increase support for the firewall...
What if you market it as "Pandora for News"?
Is there another Slashdot that I am not aware of its existence?
Maybe?
The better word is "Ukraine". Not "the Ukraine".
That, or the right to go bowling on Tuesdays, it's a tough call.
Pretty much this. They need the money to pay their bowling league fees. The EU offered to pay enough for Tuesday/Thursday league nights, but nothing else. Russia offered to pay for four nights a week, including the cost of pizzas and beer, but with the caveat that they have to let Vladimir on their team, and if he doesn't feel like playing on a given night, then none of them can play.
Never mind, found this. 113F is the lethal temp. 122F is immediate kill temp.
Could you link your source? That seems low to me. It's been a while since I checked (I did all my research during my infestation in 2012), but IIRC nothing below 113F is lethal. I remember 60 minutes at 113F, 20 minutes at 140F, ~30 seconds at 160F, and instantaneous at 212F.
. But most of the time bed bugs are the result of just poor housekeeping in one place.
Which is flat out false. Bedbugs have nothing to do with cleanliness or housekeeping. They eat blood, not trash. They are attracted to you, not your mess.
It's completely and absolutely harmless for you, babies, pets, etc.
Once it's settled out of the air, sure. During application and until it settles, you should wear respiratory protection and keep kids/pets/etc out of the area. That pure, fine dust can and will cause inflammation of the respiratory tract if inhaled.
So he has a mechanical nose to detect them, and he has a point-and-shoot laser to kill them. Neither of those are a good idea.
First of all, the detector. This one's the better of the two ideas. If it can do all that a dog can do, then it's probably worth it for someone uber-paranoid or in a high-risk environment. But it's 3-4 times the price of a dog visit, so someone who just wants a quick check around the apartment is better off with the dog. And that's still with the big IF it can do it as well as a dog.
Oh, and his worries that a bug-dog will jump all over your furniture or eat poison are ludicrous. They're highly trained professionals, like their handlers. Not quite police-dog level, but close. A bug-dog that wrecks the place or eats poison will not be a bug-dog for long.
Next topic - the laser. First of all, his statement about industry-standard insecticides is wrong. Only some exterminators still use pesticides for bedbugs; the others use heat. If they do use pesticide, there are new ones out there that are extremely potent and will not likely need to be reapplied. But the go-to treatment now is heat, and they do it in a much more effective way than this dumb laser. Bedbugs want to survive just like any other living creature - they will run away from a targeted blast of heat, and they'll run someplace the laser can't reach them, like inside the walls (if they weren't there already, which they probably were). Effective heat treatments raise the entire interior temperature of your apartment/house above bug-lethal temperatures. There is no escape.
Don't buy from this guy. He knows a little about what he's talking about, but his solutions are the wrong solutions. If you think you have bedbugs, contact a professional pest control operator. They are extremely difficult to kill, and you will often only make the infestation worse if you try to DIY it.
I don't know about Muslims, and I don't have a reliable source for this. But I always heard that the Amish shave like that because in olden-days Europe, a moustache was a sign of military rank or status. They would keep their beards because it was a sign of being a man (they keep themselves clean-shaven until their wedding day, the day they become a man, and after that they never cut their beard), but as a symbol of pacifism they would specifically shave off their moustaches.
In one hundred years we'll look back at the practice of eating meat with the same horror that we look upon slavery now.
In one hundred years, we'll look back at the practice of eating natural meat with horror. Would you have a problem with lab-grown meat?
Do pigs fight the way deer do? Because deer are the most pointlessly violent animals I've ever seen (outside, arguably, humans). If there are two bucks and eight does in an area, the two bucks will fight for all eight. The loser will be horribly injured, maimed possibly to the point of death. The winner will also be injured, and will be so exhausted that he will mate with just one doe before collapsing. The other seven does are SOL.
Screw morphine. I've wondered why we don't just use nitrogen to suffocate them. There is no suffocation reflex, because the body's suffocation reflex is based on overabundance of CO2, not underabundance of O2. It's completely painless - they pass out within a minute and never wake up. In the oil and shipping industries we have "Nitrogen: The Silent Killer" posters plastered everywhere in enclosed at-risk spaces. I never understood why we deal with expensive drug cocktails when we have tanks of simple N2 ready to be used.
Gorignak!
That's what scares me the most.
Obama is a very smart man. He's a scholar who taught Constitutional Law for twelve years. He campaigned on a reduction of surveillance and spying. Then, once President, he did a 180.
Something happened to make him change his mind. Was he corrupted by power? Are the monied interests that powerful that they made him deny what he'd been teaching for years? Or is there something else afoot?