I just remember living in house with a oil furnace, and the oil furnace guy came over, and was all pissed, because apparently there was a pool of heating oil near the furnace (which was broken, thus him coming out). He was all yelling at us because it could have gone all boom, apparently.
Given the wavelength of microwaves and the nodality of the radiation pattern, apparently ants and other small insects can just move about until they find a "cold" area where the radiation is less intense. Size limit is probably half the wavelength or so, if I recall right.
They need an automated at-home 'perfect binding' system to solve the problem of digital-to-paper, and an automated book scanner with decent OCR to solve the paper-to-digital problem. Only then can I be content.
Ooh, or perhaps another way to solve my problem would be a roboticized bookshelving system. Ask for a book, put a book back in. No organizing needed.
As far as I can tell, everything that hyperthreading was designed around was the idea that two dissimilar threads would run at the same time, for example, an I/O bound thread with a FPU-bound thread, or the like.
Running two identical threads on the same processor intuitively seems like it would result in a slowdown, as you've got more overhead than the thread running alone, with the same tasks being executed.
Kinda like trying to toast bread by putting one piece in, then rapidly taking it out and putting a different one in, repeat as needed, vs having two seperate slots, or just toasting one at a time.
Well, for my part, I'm just looking at fooling a camera, which has (theoretically) got to work in degraded conditions like rain and such. At which point as long as it were vaguely recognizable as a letter or number, it'd work.
Also, you could include the curved segments fairly easily, it's just a mosaic of parts to push into the film, doesn't really matter what shapes they are. You could even do it dot-matrix style, with a small enough dot, any script is doable.
Theoretically, you could use physical means, for example, the standard LCD-type lettering, with the bars pressed into a flexible semitransparent plastic of a different color, thus standing out like a "normal" license plate.
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:CVM6KDXEVVHTDG4ALECRZGPHVB7GBL FQ (-- mind the slashdot-added space)
That there is a magnet URI. Using Azureus, you can look it up and download what I'm downloading. No torrent hosting needed.
Now, if that torrent were decentralized entirely, there wouldn't even be a tracker to shut down.
We're 80% of the way there. All you need now is a web page listing URIs to torrents, and even that could be shared by email or any other anonymous means.
Well, my point is not that sex isn't a morally charged act, or what have you, but that implying something is not a pandemic solely to your issues with how people get it is a bit shortsighted. After all, how would you feel if people implied that (hypothetically) dying of Creutzfeld Jacob disease was your fault for eating red meat? There's no morality to a disease, it doesn't pick and choose.
At the risk of not being PC enough, the only reason influenza is spreading around so rapidly is the rampant talking. Admittedly, in America, you've got the issue of local legends of talking with young virgins (and by young, we're talking way pre-pubescent...) curing influenza, which leads to unwilling infections, but for the most part, influenza is being spread among people who know exactly what they're doing. I think labeling it as a pandemic would be similar to designating lung cancer from smoking as a pandemic.
See how silly it sounds? Just because you think that people having sex deserve to get sick, doesn't mean it's not a pandemic.
Actually, having a good immune system for a certain virus will most likely mean a less efficient immune system for other virusses; it's not like the immune system has unlimited flexibility, AFAIK.
Besides, the plague isn't the only virus the world has ever survived. Pretty good chance all ethnicities got their share of deadly deceases to survive over the history of mankind.
Firstly, this is almost exactly the opposite of how it actually works. Your immune system is immensely overbuilt and incredibly flexible, almost too much so. There are tens of thousands of different immune system triggers that are lying dormant right now because you've never been exposed to something that activated them. This is the reason we get allergies, our immune systems are almost inconcievably overpowered because of the evolutionary pressure to not get sick and die.
Secondly, the Bubonic Plague is not a virus. It is a bacterium. As another poster stated, it uses the same CD4 receptor to make its way into your immune cells as HIV does. So there's a strong relationship between immune system resilience to both at once. Even if you've only got one copy of the mutated CD4 receptor, that makes it more difficult for HIV and the plague to enter your T cells, and thus lends resistance. So there's a reasonable expectation that people who survived the plague will be less prone to be infected by HIV when exposed.
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I'm curious what would happen if a highly-lethal but long-incubation virus that had a high transmissibility rate broke into humans?
I'm talking about perhaps a month of incubation with a 20% mortality, transmissible by fluid but not aerosol./makes me glad I stay at home most of the time
Barring people who visit attractive terrorist targets on a regular basis, most slashdotters are as likely to eat a baby with a side of fava beans as they are to die in a terrorist attack.
Or was the accurate one "Die of being stung by bees while struck by lightning"
You're assuming that the asset isn't appreciating. If you're borrowing against a house at a low rate of interest (from having a good credit score) you may actually be increasing your net value, though not as fast as if you'd left the asset alone.
What I'm trying to say is, you may have an asset, but that asset is not cash, unless you have a good credit score. Then you borrow money against that asset. Your net worth stays the same, but you have cash.
Most system administrators are idiots too. In my experience, the vast majority have more experience getting it to work than getting it to work securely.
I like the people who melted their hard drives down to liquid aluminum when done with them.
That seems a suitably final sort of solution.
However...
THIS JUST IN: Most people who use computers are idiots, and anyone with half a brain could get them to tell passwords and other sensitive info in a day or two of work.
Thus, most computer systems are only secure until someone wants in.
And yet I spend $40 on internet and $20 on power to keep my computers running each month, yet I'm apparently unable to pay for things?
I just find the idea that a copy of something that cost approximately $0 to create is somehow worth a nonzero amount. Maybe if I could pay $20 a month for fast free downloads, (VOD with recordability, high quality, and no ads?) it'd be worth it.
Until then, going through the hassle of finding scene releases is worth it.
A good credit score gets you cheaper money, is the essence of it.
For example, say you've got a home that you own free and clear. That's a significant asset which is worth a lot of money.
However, if you're otherwise destitute, that house is going to do you no good unless you sell it.
On the other hand, if you've got a decent credit score, you can get someone to loan you money based on the value of the house, thus liquidating only a portion of it's value. With a really high credit score, you may even pay less than you would earn in interest on the borrowed money.
So, credit score isn't just about debt, it's also about liquidity of assets.
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I just remember living in house with a oil furnace, and the oil furnace guy came over, and was all pissed, because apparently there was a pool of heating oil near the furnace (which was broken, thus him coming out). He was all yelling at us because it could have gone all boom, apparently.
Your Batman Begins references will get you no karma here! It's not official canon, therefore slashdot as a community shuns it.
Heating oil is a volatile organic chemical, and it has a higher energy density. It'll blow your house up no problem.
Given the wavelength of microwaves and the nodality of the radiation pattern, apparently ants and other small insects can just move about until they find a "cold" area where the radiation is less intense. Size limit is probably half the wavelength or so, if I recall right.
Grandparent is trying to say that you can't overgraze wireless spectrum... which I think isn't an arguable point.
Thinking too high tech!
Bat and Ball are my pick for the winner. Been around as long as we've had round rocks and sticks.
They need an automated at-home 'perfect binding' system to solve the problem of digital-to-paper, and an automated book scanner with decent OCR to solve the paper-to-digital problem.
Only then can I be content.
Ooh, or perhaps another way to solve my problem would be a roboticized bookshelving system. Ask for a book, put a book back in. No organizing needed.
As far as I can tell, everything that hyperthreading was designed around was the idea that two dissimilar threads would run at the same time, for example, an I/O bound thread with a FPU-bound thread, or the like.
Running two identical threads on the same processor intuitively seems like it would result in a slowdown, as you've got more overhead than the thread running alone, with the same tasks being executed.
Kinda like trying to toast bread by putting one piece in, then rapidly taking it out and putting a different one in, repeat as needed, vs having two seperate slots, or just toasting one at a time.
What's the difference between a madman and an eccentric?
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About six figures!
Either that, or he's posting mysteriously from 8 minutes in the past!
Perhaps he set a timer. Or, even more mysterious, perhaps he's travelling substantially slower than we are, thus putting him behind!
On the other hand, his NTP might just be experiencing 480000ms lag. My condolences, I was on modem for a long time too.
Well, for my part, I'm just looking at fooling a camera, which has (theoretically) got to work in degraded conditions like rain and such. At which point as long as it were vaguely recognizable as a letter or number, it'd work.
Also, you could include the curved segments fairly easily, it's just a mosaic of parts to push into the film, doesn't really matter what shapes they are. You could even do it dot-matrix style, with a small enough dot, any script is doable.
Assuming you've got Q's budget, of course
He used a roller with several plates on it.
Theoretically, you could use physical means, for example, the standard LCD-type lettering, with the bars pressed into a flexible semitransparent plastic of a different color, thus standing out like a "normal" license plate.
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:CVM6KDXEVVHTDG4ALECRZGPHVB7GBL FQ (-- mind the slashdot-added space)
That there is a magnet URI. Using Azureus, you can look it up and download what I'm downloading. No torrent hosting needed.
Now, if that torrent were decentralized entirely, there wouldn't even be a tracker to shut down.
We're 80% of the way there. All you need now is a web page listing URIs to torrents, and even that could be shared by email or any other anonymous means.
Well, my point is not that sex isn't a morally charged act, or what have you, but that implying something is not a pandemic solely to your issues with how people get it is a bit shortsighted. After all, how would you feel if people implied that (hypothetically) dying of Creutzfeld Jacob disease was your fault for eating red meat? There's no morality to a disease, it doesn't pick and choose.
At the risk of being trite:
At the risk of not being PC enough, the only reason influenza is spreading around so rapidly is the rampant talking. Admittedly, in America, you've got the issue of local legends of talking with young virgins (and by young, we're talking way pre-pubescent...) curing influenza, which leads to unwilling infections, but for the most part, influenza is being spread among people who know exactly what they're doing. I think labeling it as a pandemic would be similar to designating lung cancer from smoking as a pandemic.
See how silly it sounds? Just because you think that people having sex deserve to get sick, doesn't mean it's not a pandemic.
Firstly, this is almost exactly the opposite of how it actually works. Your immune system is immensely overbuilt and incredibly flexible, almost too much so. There are tens of thousands of different immune system triggers that are lying dormant right now because you've never been exposed to something that activated them. This is the reason we get allergies, our immune systems are almost inconcievably overpowered because of the evolutionary pressure to not get sick and die.
Secondly, the Bubonic Plague is not a virus. It is a bacterium. As another poster stated, it uses the same CD4 receptor to make its way into your immune cells as HIV does. So there's a strong relationship between immune system resilience to both at once. Even if you've only got one copy of the mutated CD4 receptor, that makes it more difficult for HIV and the plague to enter your T cells, and thus lends resistance. So there's a reasonable expectation that people who survived the plague will be less prone to be infected by HIV when exposed.
I'm curious what would happen if a highly-lethal but long-incubation virus that had a high transmissibility rate broke into humans?
/makes me glad I stay at home most of the time
I'm talking about perhaps a month of incubation with a 20% mortality, transmissible by fluid but not aerosol.
Barring people who visit attractive terrorist targets on a regular basis, most slashdotters are as likely to eat a baby with a side of fava beans as they are to die in a terrorist attack.
Or was the accurate one "Die of being stung by bees while struck by lightning"
You're assuming that the asset isn't appreciating. If you're borrowing against a house at a low rate of interest (from having a good credit score) you may actually be increasing your net value, though not as fast as if you'd left the asset alone.
What I'm trying to say is, you may have an asset, but that asset is not cash, unless you have a good credit score. Then you borrow money against that asset. Your net worth stays the same, but you have cash.
Most system administrators are idiots too. In my experience, the vast majority have more experience getting it to work than getting it to work securely.
I disrespect him approximately 6% less than you do. Mathematically speaking. :)
I like the people who melted their hard drives down to liquid aluminum when done with them.
That seems a suitably final sort of solution.
However...
THIS JUST IN:
Most people who use computers are idiots, and anyone with half a brain could get them to tell passwords and other sensitive info in a day or two of work.
Thus, most computer systems are only secure until someone wants in.
The rest of it is mostly moot at that point, ne?
And yet I spend $40 on internet and $20 on power to keep my computers running each month, yet I'm apparently unable to pay for things?
I just find the idea that a copy of something that cost approximately $0 to create is somehow worth a nonzero amount. Maybe if I could pay $20 a month for fast free downloads, (VOD with recordability, high quality, and no ads?) it'd be worth it.
Until then, going through the hassle of finding scene releases is worth it.
A good credit score gets you cheaper money, is the essence of it.
For example, say you've got a home that you own free and clear. That's a significant asset which is worth a lot of money.
However, if you're otherwise destitute, that house is going to do you no good unless you sell it.
On the other hand, if you've got a decent credit score, you can get someone to loan you money based on the value of the house, thus liquidating only a portion of it's value. With a really high credit score, you may even pay less than you would earn in interest on the borrowed money.
So, credit score isn't just about debt, it's also about liquidity of assets.