I haven't run out of antistatic bags so I haven't had to improvise or build something...
If you want to hold cards upright, cut slits in a material softer than cards and copper. Also consider plastic book binding spines (I am not remembering the name for that type of binding), wire guides (some are plastic rings with gaps between), coarse brushes...browse stores for other soft bristly things.
Test the resistance of the surface to see if it is already conductive.
To make the surface conductive, paint it with a metallic paint or cover it with aluminum tape. There are paints for this task, although you could check a test patch of a paint to see if you chose a proper one.
The "young man" is from Hopkins, MN. A local TV station, WCCO, just reported that the kid renamed the.exe to his online name, and altered a web URL to point to his personal web site.
Enough said.
You can't be certain that an insecurity will be exploited. A security worker has to assume that it might be exploited and take action to prevent damage.
And immunology only works when the immune system recognizes a threat, when the immune system responds to the threat, and when the victim doesn't believe the doctor's advice to just buy a new body (so the old body is destroyed and the victim continues to exist without evolution being able to improve the system). Microsoft has been selling new bodies instead of selling soap, alcohol, and aspirin.
They knew in the eighties-nineties that viruses are spread by unsecure software.
Actually, the abilities of computer viruses and worms were known before 1975. They just didn't have those names. There was a rumor of a true worm (moved between systems and resided in only one system at a time) loose in CDC's CYBERNET in the early 1970's. Take a look at the 1975 "Shockwave Rider" novel where "worm" was coined. In 1975 the ANIMAL trojan horse roamed UNIVAC systems. And if you trace system protection abilities, you'll see that the famous Multics "rings" were considered an advanced way to protect from such risks -- many systems had various protection mechanisms before then. Just because Microsoft chose not to include well-known protection from viruses for decades does not mean that others did not know how to protect from them much earlier.
I think it depends upon local regulations. Such as an apartment building being condemned because it is unfit for human habitation because it is January and the furnace does not work, where a building permit for replacing the furnace would help a lot.
Also remember that all of the ocean floor has been replaced, so there can't be primordial carbon deposits within it. That doesn't rule out carbon deposits, just that the ocean floor is not a layer of the original Earth-forming material. I don't know what the carbon cycle in the mantle might be, other than that the mantle seems to have carbon although a low percentage.
According to Lovley, Strain 121--it will be given a species name after his lab finalizes the microbe's description--uses iron the way aerobic animals use oxygen.
"It's a novel form of respiration," Lovley says, explaining how Strain 121 uses iron to accept electrons. (Many archaea also use sulfur.) As oxygen does in humans, the iron allows the microbe to burn its food for energy. Chemically, the respiration process reduces ferric iron to ferrous iron and forms the mineral magnetite.
OK, it reduces iron and produces magnetite.
Try this...
Life on other Planets
Thomas Gold
May 1997
Where iron oxides served as the oxygen donors, the end product will be iron in a less oxidized state in which it is magnetic. Magnetite is the most common form.
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Microbial life on Mars could be dependent on the same processes as we have discussed for sub-surface life here. Highly oxidized iron is abundant on Mars, and very small-grained magnetite can then be expected to be one of the accumulated residues of microbial processes; so can iron sulfide and methane-derived carbonates.
He also points out magnetite found around oil deposits, indicating iron-using bacteria eating methane and creating oil. So there's a lot of that going on in this planet already.
You forgot the crushing pressure on Venus. If memory serves me correctly, that Venus picture was taken through an artificial sapphire. There are not many transparent materials which could withstand that environment long enough.
There are indications of volcanic activity, so the inside of the planet is probably also hot. The biosphere of Venus is up in the clouds. Or... bioshell. Kind of hard for the minerals of life to meet up there, but maybe something seeded from Mars or Earth found a niche.
I'm sure it is at no risk of becoming endangered. Look at the temperatures a few thousand feet down in rock. On a nickel-iron planet, there are plenty of places for that thing to live. It's just that it's easiest for us to find on the surface (ocean bottom), in a hot spring.
But unfortunately in many cases it's still considered to be by folks that are happy to run Windows.
Now we're back to how happy those folks are who run Windows and think crashing is normal. And how happy they are that the crash is by Windows only half the time.
Actually in my experience Linux achieves near VMS stability pretty easily, as long as you don't use any proprietary drivers. That does require you to be a little selective with your hardware, but it is far from taking you out of the commodity/x86 market altogether.
I'm confused.
As far as I'm concerned, anything which runs on Linux without proprietary drivers is a commodity/x86 device.
People put up with the problems of MS systems because people don't know there are alternatives.
Everyone sees all the computers in the office crash regularly.
Everyone knows what CONTROL-ALT-DELETE does.
Everyone knows that a reboot is common and is the first thing to try when there is a problem.
Everyone knows that computers break easily, no matter how reliable the circuitry is.
That's just the way things are. Computers crash, viruses attack, tires go flat, rain falls on your picnic. Live with it, there is no alternative.
When people know there are better possibilities they look at the options.
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You've never seen ducks trying to park, have you?
The U.S. District Attorney's Office requests that people stop having ClueBats delivered...
The "young man" is from Hopkins, MN. A local TV station, WCCO, just reported that the kid renamed the .exe to his online name, and altered a web URL to point to his personal web site.
Enough said.
Adhesive bandages.
And immunology only works when the immune system recognizes a threat, when the immune system responds to the threat, and when the victim doesn't believe the doctor's advice to just buy a new body (so the old body is destroyed and the victim continues to exist without evolution being able to improve the system). Microsoft has been selling new bodies instead of selling soap, alcohol, and aspirin.
Actually, the abilities of computer viruses and worms were known before 1975. They just didn't have those names. There was a rumor of a true worm (moved between systems and resided in only one system at a time) loose in CDC's CYBERNET in the early 1970's. Take a look at the 1975 "Shockwave Rider" novel where "worm" was coined. In 1975 the ANIMAL trojan horse roamed UNIVAC systems. And if you trace system protection abilities, you'll see that the famous Multics "rings" were considered an advanced way to protect from such risks -- many systems had various protection mechanisms before then. Just because Microsoft chose not to include well-known protection from viruses for decades does not mean that others did not know how to protect from them much earlier.
In his hallcyon Halloween days he allways says allways in the hallowed hallways. Nately dressed, naturally.
I think it depends upon local regulations. Such as an apartment building being condemned because it is unfit for human habitation because it is January and the furnace does not work, where a building permit for replacing the furnace would help a lot.
Specifically, I believe it is the spam diner sketch with spam.
How many photographs will be enough?
http://www.msss.com/education/edprog.html
Also remember that all of the ocean floor has been replaced, so there can't be primordial carbon deposits within it. That doesn't rule out carbon deposits, just that the ocean floor is not a layer of the original Earth-forming material. I don't know what the carbon cycle in the mantle might be, other than that the mantle seems to have carbon although a low percentage.
NEWCARD will be renamed PCI Card.
Because most basins do not happen to have deep flaws underneath which let carbon leak up? Because "most" basins leak?
he may tell outright lies about modern petroleum geology,
Examples?
OK, it reduces iron and produces magnetite.
Try this...
He also points out magnetite found around oil deposits, indicating iron-using bacteria eating methane and creating oil. So there's a lot of that going on in this planet already.We agree.
He referred to two people, thus it is tubdual.
There are indications of volcanic activity, so the inside of the planet is probably also hot. The biosphere of Venus is up in the clouds. Or... bioshell. Kind of hard for the minerals of life to meet up there, but maybe something seeded from Mars or Earth found a niche.
Can you say "Deep, Hot Biosphere"?
But they are obviously interested in buying my Friendster Cmdr. Taco, based on how high the bidding is going on eBay.
They shouldn't have done that.
Now there will be men who think of nothing but sex.
Mine is geometrically random.
Inside my box I have two cameras and they are aimed at each other.
Now we're back to how happy those folks are who run Windows and think crashing is normal. And how happy they are that the crash is by Windows only half the time.
I'm confused.
As far as I'm concerned, anything which runs on Linux without proprietary drivers is a commodity/x86 device.
Everyone sees all the computers in the office crash regularly.
Everyone knows what CONTROL-ALT-DELETE does.
Everyone knows that a reboot is common and is the first thing to try when there is a problem.
Everyone knows that computers break easily, no matter how reliable the circuitry is.
That's just the way things are. Computers crash, viruses attack, tires go flat, rain falls on your picnic. Live with it, there is no alternative.
When people know there are better possibilities they look at the options.