What scares me is that if there's a major long term power outage, a significant portion of the population risk dying because of things they require power for. And, worse, they don't know and can't find out how to achieve things without power, without having power to look it up.
How to fire up and connect the generator? They tossed the manual because the manual is online should they ever need it...
Even when there's an encyclopedia in the family book case, a fair amount of people probably wouldn't know how to use a written index.
The study anticipated your objection and already negated it. By comparing left-side users and right-side users, the study shows that the correlation isn't one of memory loss corresponding directly with cellphone use. It's greater with those who use their phones on a particular side of their head.
The most obvious correlation there is that right-handed and left-handed users already have brain hemisphere differences. Inferring a causality on an introduced variable and a presumption that it is a memory loss seems like really bad science.
Not that it wasn't already, given the non-representative subjects, small sample base, and a lack of a controlled environment that could reduce other factors. With this kind of sampling it's easy to "discover" all kinds of correlations. Using the same test group, I bet that you could also find a link between eating peanut butter and how long they can balance on one leg versus the other leg.
Well, according to TFS, it's apparently especially the kids that hold the phone to their right ear that "aren't training" their figural memory. Funny how that works.
Well, given how dextrousness is almost certainly the main cause of which hand is used, and thus which ear[*], and how there are already known correlations between memory problems and handedness, I don't think this "works" all that much, other than to show that there are so many factors at play that suggestions of causality are foolish.
[*], Except for Billy who holds the phone to his right ear with his left hand.
It's an interesting question: Do I not remember numbers as well because I'm not doing it regularly or am I not doing it because I can't seem to remember them as well as I used to?
Back when, I used to remember everybody's phone number, and if they were connected, their IP address, and in the right demographics, the approximate chest/waist/hip measurements as well. These days, it's not remembered as well, and I personally think it's mostly a case of disuse of the faculties, not that I've been damaged. I don't know, and won't jump to conclusions either way.
I'm not too sure that cell phone radiation is the cause, and not just an effect. That kids that use cell phones more are also the ones who aren't training figural memory.
There are so many hack attempts, that when I try to create a new account, the first email I receive tells me that my account is locked due to too many failed logins.
The best way consumers can minimize these attacks is by changing their passwords.
No, that is not necessarily the best way. Why this unsubstantiated claimm? Not creating an account in the first place and using a guest checkout is arguably better. So is switching to sites that offer better protection, like 2-factor authentication or having to call in the CVV.
Nah, AmiMoJo is usually a fairly level-headed guy, it's just his extreme predictability when it comes to whiteknighting that gets a bit grating. I shouldn't have said what I did, but he manages to come across as it doesn't matter what people do or say - if it's a woman saying it, it must be defended no matter what. He's the person I think most likely to whiteknight Elizabeth Bathory. That rubbed me the wrong way, and I went for the man and not the ball. Apologies for that. (But not for thinking whiteknighting and other on-behalf-of-indignation is exactly as bad as what it tries to fight.)
The real problem here is not one person who was punished for some rude tweets, it's we have a mob attacking people because of their gender. It's important to publicize it and develop countermeasures so that there are not more victims.
Both were attacks based on gender. One by a woman against men, the other by (presumably) men against women, and the second being a knee-jerk reaction due to the first. Are the latter developments bad? Sure, but that doesn't make the first part any better. You come across strongly as white-knighting here, and I don't really understand why. There is enough blame to go around, and jerks being jerks is a problem both ways.
It would also be great if we could understand the people behind this and their motivations. Some people want to write it off as general trolling, like it's some innate property of the internet that just happens spontaneously, but there is a years old pattern of attacks on women specifically with deeply misogynistic motivations.
Sure there is misogyny here, but there is also misandry. Always noticing and striking down on the former but never the latter doesn't strike me as helpful.
My dream is to one day see that we ignore gender, race and other external factors, and turn our back on whoever brings it up, regardless of their gender or race. And that we stop being (mock) outraged on behalf of others, fuelling a fire that doesn't have to rage, just to make ourselves look better. Sure, I have my cultural baggage, and probably unconsciously act less than perfect with respect to other groups than those to which I belong. And I think that is true for everybody else. The shiny armor tends to cover people no less human and flawed than everybody else. Oppose the behaviour, and don't attack person A and defend person B. Prejudice isn't going to be solved by picking off or praising individuals, or taking someone's side.
You know, e-ink displays are getting cheap these days...
Didn't one Californian county start tests with e-ink licence plates?
That could help, if combined with GPS/GLONASS/Galileo - if on a public road, display the license information, but if on private grounds, display something else instead, like a random license plate number...
x86-64 will likely never drop its 32/16 bit real mode compatibility.
And today we still start our Teslas with a hand crank because they must remain compatible with the Model T
More like a Tesla is still vehicle with a width accommodating most normal roads. If Tesla came out with a car that was twice the width, it would be more analogous. They don't, for a similar reason - to maintain compatibility with older resources, in Tesla's case roads.
Not sure whether you still can get the ones with CTRL in the right spot, but you can always reassign the keys. Cherry keyboards aren't super-cheap, though...
Having the date and day of week change during working hours in some parts of the world (East Asia, Australia/Oceania, America) might be a little bit inconvenient.
Only until you can mentally decouple the sun from the time. On the plus side, it causes less confusions when dealing with people who are far away, because then the sun position won't come into the equation, because you just have to deal with time, not date and sun position. For people in the far North (or South), it will be relatively easy, because near polar latitudes, people are well used to sun position varying widely compared to the clock anyhow.
The US South is going to be the problem. But then again, isn't it always?
Its not going to work at different hours with UTC. It is going to work on Monday at 2000 and getting home at Tuesday at 0800.
Having the day change in the middle of the day would be very confusing. What does "see you tomorrow" mean then?
What it always has meant. When you decouple the date and day, you are free to use one without interference from the other. Solar position is local, but time is global.
But it wasn't, it was our clocks that was set to summer time and suddenly the old "the sun is in the south at noon" no longer holds.
It usually doesn't anyhow, due to most people not being at the meridian for their time zone. In some cases, that has a much bigger impact than the one hour offset of DST. Almost all of Alaska, for example is more than one hour off already, and so is Western parts of Argentina. Western parts of China are tree hours off.
The solution that would solve a lot of problems in the modern world is to decouple time from the sun position. Have everyone use UTC, and adjust working/opening hours to what makes the most sense for any business. There would be no more problems with lazy developers using zulu time and aggregating data from different parts of the world. "Can we meet at 17:00" would be unambiguous without either part having to adjust to the other person's time zone and DST.
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If they can't even get that right, why would I think they can get keyboards right?
Cherry keyboard here. No, not just Cherry switches, Cherry keyboard. They're a bit more expensive, but well worth it. And, it doesn't have a Windows key, and has the ctrl key where it's supposed to be, left of the A. (What marketing idiot thought that caps lock was more important than ctrl and decided to switch them around?)
In parts of Europe, you don't have 3-phase live + neutral where the differential between live and neutral is 110 or 220V, but 5 phase to the house with two (arbitrary) live wires where the diifferential between the two used lives is 220V, plus a separate ground. This can either be floating ground, connected ground at the nearest transformer, or true earth in each house.
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What scares me is that if there's a major long term power outage, a significant portion of the population risk dying because of things they require power for. And, worse, they don't know and can't find out how to achieve things without power, without having power to look it up.
How to fire up and connect the generator? They tossed the manual because the manual is online should they ever need it...
Even when there's an encyclopedia in the family book case, a fair amount of people probably wouldn't know how to use a written index.
If you're concerned, you should use wired earbuds;
The speaker elements in wired earbuds also produce radiation. Moving a current in a magnetic field always causes some level of induction EMI.
The study anticipated your objection and already negated it. By comparing left-side users and right-side users, the study shows that the correlation isn't one of memory loss corresponding directly with cellphone use. It's greater with those who use their phones on a particular side of their head.
The most obvious correlation there is that right-handed and left-handed users already have brain hemisphere differences. Inferring a causality on an introduced variable and a presumption that it is a memory loss seems like really bad science.
Not that it wasn't already, given the non-representative subjects, small sample base, and a lack of a controlled environment that could reduce other factors. With this kind of sampling it's easy to "discover" all kinds of correlations. Using the same test group, I bet that you could also find a link between eating peanut butter and how long they can balance on one leg versus the other leg.
Well, according to TFS, it's apparently especially the kids that hold the phone to their right ear that "aren't training" their figural memory. Funny how that works.
Well, given how dextrousness is almost certainly the main cause of which hand is used, and thus which ear[*], and how there are already known correlations between memory problems and handedness, I don't think this "works" all that much, other than to show that there are so many factors at play that suggestions of causality are foolish.
[*], Except for Billy who holds the phone to his right ear with his left hand.
It's an interesting question: Do I not remember numbers as well because I'm not doing it regularly or am I not doing it because I can't seem to remember them as well as I used to?
Back when, I used to remember everybody's phone number, and if they were connected, their IP address, and in the right demographics, the approximate chest/waist/hip measurements as well. These days, it's not remembered as well, and I personally think it's mostly a case of disuse of the faculties, not that I've been damaged. I don't know, and won't jump to conclusions either way.
I'm not too sure that cell phone radiation is the cause, and not just an effect. That kids that use cell phones more are also the ones who aren't training figural memory.
If this is the same incident I read about at the time, it actually made pi == 9....
Well, that sure puts an end to speculations about the curvature of the universe. Omega must be less than one.
There are so many hack attempts, that when I try to create a new account, the first email I receive tells me that my account is locked due to too many failed logins.
Try picking a different username than phpadmin.
The best way consumers can minimize these attacks is by changing their passwords.
No, that is not necessarily the best way. Why this unsubstantiated claimm?
Not creating an account in the first place and using a guest checkout is arguably better. So is switching to sites that offer better protection, like 2-factor authentication or having to call in the CVV.
Nah, AmiMoJo is usually a fairly level-headed guy, it's just his extreme predictability when it comes to whiteknighting that gets a bit grating. I shouldn't have said what I did, but he manages to come across as it doesn't matter what people do or say - if it's a woman saying it, it must be defended no matter what. He's the person I think most likely to whiteknight Elizabeth Bathory.
That rubbed me the wrong way, and I went for the man and not the ball. Apologies for that. (But not for thinking whiteknighting and other on-behalf-of-indignation is exactly as bad as what it tries to fight.)
The real problem here is not one person who was punished for some rude tweets, it's we have a mob attacking people because of their gender. It's important to publicize it and develop countermeasures so that there are not more victims.
Both were attacks based on gender. One by a woman against men, the other by (presumably) men against women, and the second being a knee-jerk reaction due to the first.
Are the latter developments bad? Sure, but that doesn't make the first part any better.
You come across strongly as white-knighting here, and I don't really understand why. There is enough blame to go around, and jerks being jerks is a problem both ways.
It would also be great if we could understand the people behind this and their motivations. Some people want to write it off as general trolling, like it's some innate property of the internet that just happens spontaneously, but there is a years old pattern of attacks on women specifically with deeply misogynistic motivations.
Sure there is misogyny here, but there is also misandry. Always noticing and striking down on the former but never the latter doesn't strike me as helpful.
My dream is to one day see that we ignore gender, race and other external factors, and turn our back on whoever brings it up, regardless of their gender or race.
And that we stop being (mock) outraged on behalf of others, fuelling a fire that doesn't have to rage, just to make ourselves look better.
Sure, I have my cultural baggage, and probably unconsciously act less than perfect with respect to other groups than those to which I belong. And I think that is true for everybody else. The shiny armor tends to cover people no less human and flawed than everybody else.
Oppose the behaviour, and don't attack person A and defend person B. Prejudice isn't going to be solved by picking off or praising individuals, or taking someone's side.
Oh, cut him some slack. White knighting may be his only chance to get some poontang.
On 4chan, "they" can even be a single person discussing with himself. It's a standard tool in the trolling toolbox.
(We presumably see that sometimes here too, with AC account(s).)
You know, e-ink displays are getting cheap these days...
Didn't one Californian county start tests with e-ink licence plates?
That could help, if combined with GPS/GLONASS/Galileo - if on a public road, display the license information, but if on private grounds, display something else instead, like a random license plate number...
You can't win.
You can't break even.
You can't even quit the game.
That's the laws of thermodynamics.
They break down near black holes like PayPal.
And today we still start our Teslas with a hand crank because they must remain compatible with the Model T
More like a Tesla is still vehicle with a width accommodating most normal roads. If Tesla came out with a car that was twice the width, it would be more analogous. They don't, for a similar reason - to maintain compatibility with older resources, in Tesla's case roads.
Not sure whether you still can get the ones with CTRL in the right spot, but you can always reassign the keys. Cherry keyboards aren't super-cheap, though...
Having the date and day of week change during working hours in some parts of the world (East Asia, Australia/Oceania, America) might be a little bit inconvenient.
Only until you can mentally decouple the sun from the time. On the plus side, it causes less confusions when dealing with people who are far away, because then the sun position won't come into the equation, because you just have to deal with time, not date and sun position.
For people in the far North (or South), it will be relatively easy, because near polar latitudes, people are well used to sun position varying widely compared to the clock anyhow.
The US South is going to be the problem. But then again, isn't it always?
Its not going to work at different hours with UTC. It is going to work on Monday at 2000 and getting home at Tuesday at 0800.
Having the day change in the middle of the day would be very confusing. What does "see you tomorrow" mean then?
What it always has meant. When you decouple the date and day, you are free to use one without interference from the other. Solar position is local, but time is global.
If you work 9 till 17, and I work 15 till 23, it's damn easy to figure out when to schedule a conference call.
My former boss would have said 4, because that's the time that will inconvenience both the same amount...
But it wasn't, it was our clocks that was set to summer time and suddenly the old "the sun is in the south at noon" no longer holds.
It usually doesn't anyhow, due to most people not being at the meridian for their time zone. In some cases, that has a much bigger impact than the one hour offset of DST. Almost all of Alaska, for example is more than one hour off already, and so is Western parts of Argentina. Western parts of China are tree hours off.
The solution that would solve a lot of problems in the modern world is to decouple time from the sun position. Have everyone use UTC, and adjust working/opening hours to what makes the most sense for any business. There would be no more problems with lazy developers using zulu time and aggregating data from different parts of the world. "Can we meet at 17:00" would be unambiguous without either part having to adjust to the other person's time zone and DST.
They should eliminate it simply based on the increase in heart attacks it causes.
Triggers, not causes. A heart healthy person will get a heart attack from neither adjusting sleeping/waking preferences nor irritation it may cause.
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If they can't even get that right, why would I think they can get keyboards right?
Cherry keyboard here. No, not just Cherry switches, Cherry keyboard. They're a bit more expensive, but well worth it.
And, it doesn't have a Windows key, and has the ctrl key where it's supposed to be, left of the A. (What marketing idiot thought that caps lock was more important than ctrl and decided to switch them around?)
In parts of Europe, you don't have 3-phase live + neutral where the differential between live and neutral is 110 or 220V, but 5 phase to the house with two (arbitrary) live wires where the diifferential between the two used lives is 220V, plus a separate ground. This can either be floating ground, connected ground at the nearest transformer, or true earth in each house.