I would have thought smoking would bring on mental problems in the first place rather than be a palliative. Smokers have reduced lung function, less oxygen in the blood, which I think would lead to a more poorly functioning brain (as well as other organs), leading to things like depression and other mental problems.
I'd argue that it's an even smaller percentage than that. PET scans of brain activity show only small areas that are active at any one instant, and even then the temporal resolution is such that the snapshots are 'fuzzy'. I'd suggest less than 1% of the neurons (say a billion) are active at any one time, suggesting to me that perhaps a computing cluster of a hundred multi-gigaherz cores could simulate the activity of a human brain well enough.
Perhaps I'm feeding a troll, I don't care. I watched Sicko a while back, scared the crap out of me, made me appreciate what we've got in the UK. I'd recommend watching it.
It was the classic 'Oh shit, I've found a lump' moment. Actually it was 2 lumps, one in my neck, which I foolishly ignored for a month, then a lump in my armpit, on the same side, which combined with a bad night-sweat (waking up to soaked sheets at 4am) got the alarm bells going. (These are classic Hodgkins Lymphoma signs, it turns out).
The nasty thing about Hodgkins is that it is most prevalent in men in their mid 20's, just the age when you are least expecting out-of-the-blue health problems usually. It's pretty rare though at least, which is something. Plus I'm in the UK, free healthcare for all via the NHS, which encourages getting things checked out anyway I think.
Funny, I always believed that the spleen was the center of the immune system. I got lymphoma (the AIDS of cancers) ten years ago, and I gave thanks that it was caught early enough that I didn't need to have my spleen removed, only a tumorous lymph node in my neck, followed by some radiotherapy.
Personally I'd much rather see a test for melatonin levels than any narcotic. Driving while tired is much more common and more hence likely to cause accidents than drug use I think.
Generating SSH keys involves interaction via at least keyboard and possibly mouse at a terminal. Surely that basic permise is enough to provide enough entropy for the pseudo-random generator. Also, the date and time (as sources of random) can't be virtualized of course.
I'm pretty sure the budget for a Mars mission would include a dedicated massive satellite transceiver on Earth for their own comms. I'm just saying they can probably include some TV signals and high-latency internet in there too.
These days we'd only be talking a few watts per person for a modern laptop. Surely they could spare that... a little bit of diverted solar, or reuse some of the power from the 1 hour daily exercise they're probably expected to take.
I would have thought that would be an easy thing to provide them for mental stimulation on a long boring journey. Couple of laptops with few thousand hours of video, games, website snapshots, virtual environments to explore.
Curiously enough, here in the UK, the fashion trend for 'hoodies' among teenagers took off pretty much in parallel with the explosion of CCTV monitoring in the cities.
I think there is a hidden suggestion that because of fossil-fuel depletion there will be a massive reduction in overall electricity usage by 2030 - so the 20% figure may actually turn out to be accurate.
You must be joking. That's like packing in 30 2KW electric fan heaters into a rack, obstructing the airflow with a ton of other junk and praying it won't melt. Good luck with that.
The potential for Evil Genius Anarchy is endless. Missdirection and lies in Wikipedia lead to red faces. Similar shenanigans here could lead to at best magic smoke releases and at worst homes razed and heart-failure. Lovely.
I'll just point out that in a steady relationship it's _the_ most reliable method of birth control and the cheapest and simplest to implement long-term.
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If you are rotating your swapped-out disks rather than continually using new blank ones, then the re-mirroring (if done vaguely intelligently) will only update based on the blocks that have changed since the last time that disk was running live in the array (i.e. an incremental update, which is much faster than re-mirroring from scratch).
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RAID 1 + swapping out/rebuilding a mirror disk periodically is a perfectly reasonable backup solution.
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I would have thought smoking would bring on mental problems in the first place rather than be a palliative. Smokers have reduced lung function, less oxygen in the blood, which I think would lead to a more poorly functioning brain (as well as other organs), leading to things like depression and other mental problems.
I'd argue that it's an even smaller percentage than that. PET scans of brain activity show only small areas that are active at any one instant, and even then the temporal resolution is such that the snapshots are 'fuzzy'. I'd suggest less than 1% of the neurons (say a billion) are active at any one time, suggesting to me that perhaps a computing cluster of a hundred multi-gigaherz cores could simulate the activity of a human brain well enough.
Perhaps I'm feeding a troll, I don't care.
I watched Sicko a while back, scared the crap out of me, made me appreciate what we've got in the UK. I'd recommend watching it.
It was the classic 'Oh shit, I've found a lump' moment. Actually it was 2 lumps, one in my neck, which I foolishly ignored for a month, then a lump in my armpit, on the same side, which combined with a bad night-sweat (waking up to soaked sheets at 4am) got the alarm bells going. (These are classic Hodgkins Lymphoma signs, it turns out).
The nasty thing about Hodgkins is that it is most prevalent in men in their mid 20's, just the age when you are least expecting out-of-the-blue health problems usually. It's pretty rare though at least, which is something. Plus I'm in the UK, free healthcare for all via the NHS, which encourages getting things checked out anyway I think.
Funny, I always believed that the spleen was the center of the immune system. I got lymphoma (the AIDS of cancers) ten years ago, and I gave thanks that it was caught early enough that I didn't need to have my spleen removed, only a tumorous lymph node in my neck, followed by some radiotherapy.
FTFA:
"scientists say it could be years, if ever, before the collider runs at full strength"
Looking more and more likely that a Dec 2012 full-power test could be on the cards.
Personally I'd much rather see a test for melatonin levels than any narcotic. Driving while tired is much more common and more hence likely to cause accidents than drug use I think.
Generating SSH keys involves interaction via at least keyboard and possibly mouse at a terminal. Surely that basic permise is enough to provide enough entropy for the pseudo-random generator. Also, the date and time (as sources of random) can't be virtualized of course.
Kind of reminds me of colloidal silver, a common antibacterial agent before antibiotics became common.
according to this independent ratings site.
Those are obviously the required 'control' subjects for such an experiment. Hooray for control subjects.
I'm pretty sure the budget for a Mars mission would include a dedicated massive satellite transceiver on Earth for their own comms. I'm just saying they can probably include some TV signals and high-latency internet in there too.
You're joking right? A lot of people already get their TV from space and some even get their Internet access that way too.
These days we'd only be talking a few watts per person for a modern laptop. Surely they could spare that... a little bit of diverted solar, or reuse some of the power from the 1 hour daily exercise they're probably expected to take.
I would have thought that would be an easy thing to provide them for mental stimulation on a long boring journey. Couple of laptops with few thousand hours of video, games, website snapshots, virtual environments to explore.
doesn't re-scale or tag your uploaded images first!
Curiously enough, here in the UK, the fashion trend for 'hoodies' among teenagers took off pretty much in parallel with the explosion of CCTV monitoring in the cities.
Or for that matter any other earthquake-prone area of the world. The habituation to being shaken awake might prove to be his undoing.
I think there is a hidden suggestion that because of fossil-fuel depletion there will be a massive reduction in overall electricity usage by 2030 - so the 20% figure may actually turn out to be accurate.
Um, no. The government has forced BT to implement local-loop unbundling to remove their monopoly on telecomunications in the UK.
You must be joking. That's like packing in 30 2KW electric fan heaters into a rack, obstructing the airflow with a ton of other junk and praying it won't melt. Good luck with that.
The potential for Evil Genius Anarchy is endless. Missdirection and lies in Wikipedia lead to red faces. Similar shenanigans here could lead to at best magic smoke releases and at worst homes razed and heart-failure. Lovely.
I'll just point out that in a steady relationship it's _the_ most reliable method of birth control and the cheapest and simplest to implement long-term.
If you are rotating your swapped-out disks rather than continually using new blank ones, then the re-mirroring (if done vaguely intelligently) will only update based on the blocks that have changed since the last time that disk was running live in the array (i.e. an incremental update, which is much faster than re-mirroring from scratch).
RAID 1 + swapping out/rebuilding a mirror disk periodically is a perfectly reasonable backup solution.