There have been studies in the past to see what motivates people to NOT break the law.
To prevent people breaking the law, raising the sentence or the punishment tends to have little impact. What does have impact is raising the chance that you will get caught. You can hand out life sentences for people stealing candy bars and it would prevent fewer people stealing them than if you embedded a security chip into the wrapper or had a policeman standing next to the candy bar at all times watching it.
Punishment doesn't deter people- chance of getting caught does.
This is the problem with cybercrime. You can put any punishment on committing a crime and it won't stop many people doing it because; cyber criminals know there is almost no chance they will ever get caught. Cybercrime is only going to get worse because there isn't an effective way to police it; so people need to be increasingly vigilant about security.
Specially trained humans that knew what to look for could, too. This proves what exactly? Nothing? Sounds about right. Is everyone in Silicon Valley 12?
They probably couldn't do it as quickly. Put a time limit on and you eliminate the silly-humans.
Well, to be fair, our new Robot Overlords, whom I welcome and embrace wholeheartedly, need a place to hang out without us slow, smelly meatbags getting in their way all the time...
I've heard that Tinder already uses this technology to populate the female profiles.
While I'm not a bitcoin investor, I buy it and use it weekly to pay my contractors around the world. Years ago I had to use wire transfers, which would cost a fortune and frequently get lost, and take over a week if they did arrive. Paypal and similar services were okay, but then they started freezing the accounts of my contractors and employees for no reason.
Precisely why I'm rooting for cryptocurrencies to disappear.
The cryptocurrency won't disappear though. It also won't hit $0. It can't hit $0, for it to hit $0 someone would have to be offering their BTC for $0 and no one would do that. You'd hold on to them, or ignore them before giving them away.
The bitcoin can, and probably will drop lower still- but it won't hit zero because there will always be nerds and idealists holding onto the coin for what it represents, even if for no other reason. How far will it go? And will it rebound again? Who knows- could be $5,000... could be $500- maybe it will rebound back up to $10,000. Unlikely you will ever need multiple of them to buy a pizza again though.
Cats generally don't do things like this if you spend a little bit of time playing with them or exercising them. I once had a cat that liked to get up to all kinds of similarly mischievous deeds until I eventually figured out that it was just bored. After spending 20 minutes having it chase around a toy mouse on a string or a laser pointer, it wouldn't engage in other types of destructive behavior.
Cats don't need a lot of attention. They're more than happy to spend most of a day sleeping or lying in the sun. However, they are predators and are wired to stalk, chase prey, etc. Satisfy those behavioral needs and they're not going to go around trying to find other ways to scratch those itches. It also makes the cat a lot more friendly towards you as well.
Oh, this one got a lot of attention! I still have her actually, she's 20 years old now (she doesn't get as much attention now though because she is always asleep). I used to call he psycho kitty because when she was young we used to play this game where I would peak around a corner at her repeatedly... and then she'd come death-charge me... I would run and she would leap onto my leg like a lion trying to take down a wildebeest. In summer when I wore shorts I regretted playing that game with her... when it was winter and I wore jeans and it didn't hurt... I went around with lots of scratches on my legs.
Before I got married, when I lived in that apartment I probably played at least an hour a day with her- even trained her to jump through hoops (well, actually it was a triangle from a snooker table)... when I wasn't playing with her, 90% of the time I was home she was curled up with me. No one could ever accuse this cat of not getting attention. I still joke with my wife that my cat is my first wife and my wife is just a sister-wife. Or I refer to the cat as the love of my life and my wife as the "non-fluffy" love of my life.
One of my ex-wife's cats was a bit mean - she'd do things she knew she wasn't supposed to, like knocking things off bookcase shelves.
But only when no one was watching...
Cat's aren't stupid. They know when they do things that piss you off- and will frequently do it when you're not looking. When I first graduated University, I got a small flat and a cat. The cat love destroying the blinds, she also knew I didn't love it when she destroyed the blinds. She quickly learnt to do it only when I wasn't home... or I was in bed.
She knew, if she smashed up the blinds in the kitchen whilst I was on the computer in the bedroom I'd come and tell her off... so she didn't. She also knew, if I were in bed trying to sleep and she did it, I would be too lazy to get up and tell her off. Thus, she destroyed them when I was out, or in bed... if I were anywhere else in the apartment, even if she couldn't see me (or I her) she would leave them alone, fearing my wrath knowing I would hear her.
Yep. I was reading this article and thinking about introducing these into one of my land locked ponds.
Crayfish can, and do, climb out of water. Especially if it is damp out. Not very often, but occasionally they'll wander quite far... especially if it's very wet and rainy... they can live out of water for quite sometime as long as they stay damp.
The main reason they might start leaving your pond is if food was low. A species that replicates as quickly as this and that (unlike other crayfish) can live in dense numbers is not ideal. They would relatively quickly eat everything and run low on food and start searching for other homes unless you had a lot of predators eating them.
Also, crayfish can spread between landlocked ponds by other methods. These guys like to hang out in pond weed. A bird lands on your pond, gets a little pond weed wrapped around his foot. One marmokreb is stuck on the weed... bird flies to another pond... Now you have infected another pond.
You won't get much meat off a marmokreb. The work to meat ratio is pretty low.
After cooking (in the boil)... Twist it in half to separate the tail from the body (thorax). Hold the tail to your mouth, suck and squeeze the tail. Repeat for body. Discard rest.
They also can be mechanically separated, as you can buy crawfish tail meat by the pound. Which go great as a substitute for lobster in many dishes and makes a very fine crawfish roll. They are related to lobsters, after all.
Also, they're nice and sustainable so what everyone needs to do is just munch away.
These guys are smaller than your average shrimp. It's really not worth the effort.
like a virus they're still undergoing their own slow asexual evolution.
They started asexual reproduction from a single female in 1995. Only 23 years is not enough time for significant genetic variation to arise from random mutations. It is highly unlikely that there will be much variation in their resistance to a virus.
Depends on the lifespan, which I don't care enough to look up.
I've never kept Marmokrebs, but I've bred dwarf crayfish many years ago. If I recall correctly, they can start producing young at about 4 months of age. They can produce maybe 30 or 40 eggs every other time they shed their exoskeleton- so every few months. You can have a couple of generations a year. So 23 years is about 69 generations. One crayfish can produce hundreds of offspring in a year in ideal circumstance- and her offspring can even produce offspring in that same year.
People should note that marmokrebs are not large lobster like creatures... they're pretty small crayfish, your cocktail shrimp are probably larger than these gals, they can produce LOTS of young and live in fairly dense numbers (dwarf crayfish don't tend to canibalise each other like larger crayfish do, so you don't have them keeping their numbers down by eating each other- only other predators can keep their numbers down). They also have no trouble finding food because they are omnivores and can even find food in detritus. They eat anything and everything just about. (including fish eggs- so they will eat the competition's eggs to get even more food).
A small stream could potentially have many thousand of these critters in them. spread that amongst many-many streams you have many many little crayfish lives each birth is a chance for new mutation.
Does every one of these emergency agencies have a bunch of Homer Simpsons manning the control panels? Sheesh.
Either that, or hackers are really sending these messages and the "oops we pressed the wrong button" crap is just a cover up...... ooooh a new conspiracy theory.
Meh, they're bottom of the barrel crayfish. Most other crayfish species would eat them. The only reason they're taking over in Europe is there aren't many other crayfish species there.
It means they're more susceptible to all being wiped out by a virus; but, clones aren't necessarily 100% identical though. Mutations still happen. We're all descended from organisms that "cloned" themselves after, all. An isolated individual that wasn't hit by the virus could quickly repopulate.
Oh and the laser power is probably just a few milliwatts at best (if even that much) so it's not like it'd be hazardous to your retinas.
Shouldn't be, but I wouldn't want to be an early adopter on that. An example would be, even low "safe volume noise" can be hazardous to your hearing if continuous.
In reality, there probably is nothing to fear... but I'll let someone else go first.
So I'm gonna bitch about the super rich. There's no shortage of useful things to send up on a rocket, but we're gonna waste a launch on a dumb stunt by a rich guy. I'm an American, so I don't even have guaranteed health care let alone a robust social safety net, so maybe I'd be a little less bitter if I did. But this sort of nonsense reminds me of the pyramids, the opera houses and other excesses of the ultra wealthy. It's not a good sign to see stuff like this starting to make a comeback.
The dumb stunt is intended to do exactly what it is doing. Make news.
If journalists didn't report that he was sending a car up there, he'd probably send a lump of rock up there instead as a payload test weight. Making news = bringing in more sponsorship money. Yeah, probably more useful things to launch, but the more money that comes in the more he develops the rockets.
Elon Musk is a very popular figure on sites like reddit that "like" technology and science but have very little understanding of it. Every week he says something that either shows what a "down to earth" guy he is, some doomsday prophecy, or announces some pipe dream technology that will never be worked on, and the masses start reposting his every word.
He (or rather his PR team) is very good at creating that "image" and keeping himself popular on reddit, but he's terrible at the thing an enterpreneur is supposed to excel at - generating profits.
He's popularizing science and technology. That's a good thing right? Even if you think yourself superior to him technologically, don't you appreciate that he is making science and tech "cool" to the mainstream?
I'd also like to see the long term safety impact of wearing the glasses before being an adopter.
Yeah...I got that laser surgery for my eyes. Who knew that 20 years later, your eyeballs fall out?
Obviously you're joking, but Lasik has turned out to be less successful than was expected early on. A lot of people do have very bad side-effects from Lasik. My sister-in-law is one of them. Side effects are bad enough that my wife is happy she never got it done. (coming from same gene pool and likely would have similar reactions).
I remember when tablets started getting popular I thought they were just a fad.
I think they lasted long enough to not be considered a fad, but I think the basic problem remains. They're not as convenient as a phone and they're not as usable as a laptop. Sure, helps if you have a keyboard case... but still a laptop will always do more. I think there will always be a demographic that likes tablets (children for one)... they're just not as useful for most things. They will have their niche.
A tablet is after all just a clunky phone or a crippled laptop.
How many people bought a tablet expecting to do great things with it and after a month or so barely used it, instead preferring their phone (or laptop)? I imagine most tablet buyers (at least that's how most people I know who have a tablet operated).
Just remember to run a screensaver, otherwise you will have the "Intel Inside" logo forever burned into your vision.
I think there probably would be some idiots in Inte's marketing department that would regard that as a feature instead of a bug...
Give it 20 years and the "Intel" inside your brain will make it so you can't delete the "Intel Inside" you see continuously in your vision. Hopefully, much like your nose, you will learn to not see it.
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There have been studies in the past to see what motivates people to NOT break the law.
To prevent people breaking the law, raising the sentence or the punishment tends to have little impact. What does have impact is raising the chance that you will get caught. You can hand out life sentences for people stealing candy bars and it would prevent fewer people stealing them than if you embedded a security chip into the wrapper or had a policeman standing next to the candy bar at all times watching it.
Punishment doesn't deter people- chance of getting caught does.
This is the problem with cybercrime. You can put any punishment on committing a crime and it won't stop many people doing it because; cyber criminals know there is almost no chance they will ever get caught. Cybercrime is only going to get worse because there isn't an effective way to police it; so people need to be increasingly vigilant about security.
Specially trained humans that knew what to look for could, too. This proves what exactly? Nothing? Sounds about right. Is everyone in Silicon Valley 12?
They probably couldn't do it as quickly. Put a time limit on and you eliminate the silly-humans.
Am I the only one who got a CAPTCHA where the bots should identify dicks? Brings a whole new meaning to gender binary.
A robot wouldn't find anything unusual in that.
Well, to be fair, our new Robot Overlords, whom I welcome and embrace wholeheartedly, need a place to hang out without us slow, smelly meatbags getting in their way all the time...
I've heard that Tinder already uses this technology to populate the female profiles.
While I'm not a bitcoin investor, I buy it and use it weekly to pay my contractors around the world. Years ago I had to use wire transfers, which would cost a fortune and frequently get lost, and take over a week if they did arrive. Paypal and similar services were okay, but then they started freezing the accounts of my contractors and employees for no reason.
You don't work with Nigerian princes do you?
Precisely why I'm rooting for cryptocurrencies to disappear.
The cryptocurrency won't disappear though. It also won't hit $0. It can't hit $0, for it to hit $0 someone would have to be offering their BTC for $0 and no one would do that. You'd hold on to them, or ignore them before giving them away.
The bitcoin can, and probably will drop lower still- but it won't hit zero because there will always be nerds and idealists holding onto the coin for what it represents, even if for no other reason. How far will it go? And will it rebound again? Who knows- could be $5,000... could be $500- maybe it will rebound back up to $10,000. Unlikely you will ever need multiple of them to buy a pizza again though.
Print off your key and stick in a teddy bear.
Cats generally don't do things like this if you spend a little bit of time playing with them or exercising them. I once had a cat that liked to get up to all kinds of similarly mischievous deeds until I eventually figured out that it was just bored. After spending 20 minutes having it chase around a toy mouse on a string or a laser pointer, it wouldn't engage in other types of destructive behavior.
Cats don't need a lot of attention. They're more than happy to spend most of a day sleeping or lying in the sun. However, they are predators and are wired to stalk, chase prey, etc. Satisfy those behavioral needs and they're not going to go around trying to find other ways to scratch those itches. It also makes the cat a lot more friendly towards you as well.
Oh, this one got a lot of attention! I still have her actually, she's 20 years old now (she doesn't get as much attention now though because she is always asleep). I used to call he psycho kitty because when she was young we used to play this game where I would peak around a corner at her repeatedly... and then she'd come death-charge me... I would run and she would leap onto my leg like a lion trying to take down a wildebeest. In summer when I wore shorts I regretted playing that game with her... when it was winter and I wore jeans and it didn't hurt... I went around with lots of scratches on my legs.
Before I got married, when I lived in that apartment I probably played at least an hour a day with her- even trained her to jump through hoops (well, actually it was a triangle from a snooker table)... when I wasn't playing with her, 90% of the time I was home she was curled up with me. No one could ever accuse this cat of not getting attention. I still joke with my wife that my cat is my first wife and my wife is just a sister-wife. Or I refer to the cat as the love of my life and my wife as the "non-fluffy" love of my life.
After four it doesn't really matter.
That's why I never date five-breasted women. It's just overkill.
One of my ex-wife's cats was a bit mean - she'd do things she knew she wasn't supposed to, like knocking things off bookcase shelves.
But only when no one was watching...
Cat's aren't stupid. They know when they do things that piss you off- and will frequently do it when you're not looking. When I first graduated University, I got a small flat and a cat. The cat love destroying the blinds, she also knew I didn't love it when she destroyed the blinds. She quickly learnt to do it only when I wasn't home... or I was in bed.
She knew, if she smashed up the blinds in the kitchen whilst I was on the computer in the bedroom I'd come and tell her off... so she didn't. She also knew, if I were in bed trying to sleep and she did it, I would be too lazy to get up and tell her off. Thus, she destroyed them when I was out, or in bed... if I were anywhere else in the apartment, even if she couldn't see me (or I her) she would leave them alone, fearing my wrath knowing I would hear her.
Jesus was Jewish, and was (according the Gospel of Luke) circumcised 8 days after birth, in accordance with tradition.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
He could have been an hermaphrodite.
Yep. I was reading this article and thinking about introducing these into one of my land locked ponds.
Crayfish can, and do, climb out of water. Especially if it is damp out. Not very often, but occasionally they'll wander quite far... especially if it's very wet and rainy... they can live out of water for quite sometime as long as they stay damp.
The main reason they might start leaving your pond is if food was low. A species that replicates as quickly as this and that (unlike other crayfish) can live in dense numbers is not ideal. They would relatively quickly eat everything and run low on food and start searching for other homes unless you had a lot of predators eating them.
Also, crayfish can spread between landlocked ponds by other methods. These guys like to hang out in pond weed. A bird lands on your pond, gets a little pond weed wrapped around his foot. One marmokreb is stuck on the weed... bird flies to another pond... Now you have infected another pond.
After cooking (in the boil)...
Twist it in half to separate the tail from the body (thorax). Hold the tail to your mouth, suck and squeeze the tail. Repeat for body. Discard rest.
They also can be mechanically separated, as you can buy crawfish tail meat by the pound. Which go great as a substitute for lobster in many dishes and makes a very fine crawfish roll. They are related to lobsters, after all.
Also, they're nice and sustainable so what everyone needs to do is just munch away.
These guys are smaller than your average shrimp. It's really not worth the effort.
like a virus they're still undergoing their own slow asexual evolution.
They started asexual reproduction from a single female in 1995. Only 23 years is not enough time for significant genetic variation to arise from random mutations. It is highly unlikely that there will be much variation in their resistance to a virus.
Depends on the lifespan, which I don't care enough to look up.
I've never kept Marmokrebs, but I've bred dwarf crayfish many years ago. If I recall correctly, they can start producing young at about 4 months of age. They can produce maybe 30 or 40 eggs every other time they shed their exoskeleton- so every few months. You can have a couple of generations a year. So 23 years is about 69 generations. One crayfish can produce hundreds of offspring in a year in ideal circumstance- and her offspring can even produce offspring in that same year.
People should note that marmokrebs are not large lobster like creatures... they're pretty small crayfish, your cocktail shrimp are probably larger than these gals, they can produce LOTS of young and live in fairly dense numbers (dwarf crayfish don't tend to canibalise each other like larger crayfish do, so you don't have them keeping their numbers down by eating each other- only other predators can keep their numbers down). They also have no trouble finding food because they are omnivores and can even find food in detritus. They eat anything and everything just about. (including fish eggs- so they will eat the competition's eggs to get even more food).
A small stream could potentially have many thousand of these critters in them. spread that amongst many-many streams you have many many little crayfish lives each birth is a chance for new mutation.
Does every one of these emergency agencies have a bunch of Homer Simpsons manning the control panels? Sheesh.
Either that, or hackers are really sending these messages and the "oops we pressed the wrong button" crap is just a cover up... ... ooooh a new conspiracy theory.
I, for one, welcome our new crayfish overlords.
Meh, they're bottom of the barrel crayfish. Most other crayfish species would eat them. The only reason they're taking over in Europe is there aren't many other crayfish species there.
Grab a really big pot, and some seasoning, I'm hungry.
You won't get much meat off a marmokreb. The work to meat ratio is pretty low.
Wait. They're all clones, right ?
I bet a single virus could wipe them all.
It means they're more susceptible to all being wiped out by a virus; but, clones aren't necessarily 100% identical though. Mutations still happen. We're all descended from organisms that "cloned" themselves after, all. An isolated individual that wasn't hit by the virus could quickly repopulate.
Oh and the laser power is probably just a few milliwatts at best (if even that much) so it's not like it'd be hazardous to your retinas.
Shouldn't be, but I wouldn't want to be an early adopter on that. An example would be, even low "safe volume noise" can be hazardous to your hearing if continuous.
In reality, there probably is nothing to fear... but I'll let someone else go first.
So I'm gonna bitch about the super rich. There's no shortage of useful things to send up on a rocket, but we're gonna waste a launch on a dumb stunt by a rich guy. I'm an American, so I don't even have guaranteed health care let alone a robust social safety net, so maybe I'd be a little less bitter if I did. But this sort of nonsense reminds me of the pyramids, the opera houses and other excesses of the ultra wealthy. It's not a good sign to see stuff like this starting to make a comeback.
The dumb stunt is intended to do exactly what it is doing. Make news.
If journalists didn't report that he was sending a car up there, he'd probably send a lump of rock up there instead as a payload test weight. Making news = bringing in more sponsorship money. Yeah, probably more useful things to launch, but the more money that comes in the more he develops the rockets.
Elon Musk is a very popular figure on sites like reddit that "like" technology and science but have very little understanding of it. Every week he says something that either shows what a "down to earth" guy he is, some doomsday prophecy, or announces some pipe dream technology that will never be worked on, and the masses start reposting his every word.
He (or rather his PR team) is very good at creating that "image" and keeping himself popular on reddit, but he's terrible at the thing an enterpreneur is supposed to excel at - generating profits.
He's popularizing science and technology. That's a good thing right? Even if you think yourself superior to him technologically, don't you appreciate that he is making science and tech "cool" to the mainstream?
I'd also like to see the long term safety impact of wearing the glasses before being an adopter.
Yeah...I got that laser surgery for my eyes. Who knew that 20 years later, your eyeballs fall out?
Obviously you're joking, but Lasik has turned out to be less successful than was expected early on. A lot of people do have very bad side-effects from Lasik. My sister-in-law is one of them. Side effects are bad enough that my wife is happy she never got it done. (coming from same gene pool and likely would have similar reactions).
I remember when tablets started getting popular I thought they were just a fad.
I think they lasted long enough to not be considered a fad, but I think the basic problem remains. They're not as convenient as a phone and they're not as usable as a laptop. Sure, helps if you have a keyboard case... but still a laptop will always do more. I think there will always be a demographic that likes tablets (children for one)... they're just not as useful for most things. They will have their niche.
A tablet is after all just a clunky phone or a crippled laptop.
How many people bought a tablet expecting to do great things with it and after a month or so barely used it, instead preferring their phone (or laptop)? I imagine most tablet buyers (at least that's how most people I know who have a tablet operated).
Just remember to run a screensaver, otherwise you will have the "Intel Inside" logo forever burned into your vision.
I think there probably would be some idiots in Inte's marketing department that would regard that as a feature instead of a bug...
Give it 20 years and the "Intel" inside your brain will make it so you can't delete the "Intel Inside" you see continuously in your vision. Hopefully, much like your nose, you will learn to not see it.
Having light directly hitting your retina is not unusual among people who can see.
Most people who can see end up no longer being able to see within 115 years of being born.