I used to do that "loop around rear foot of keyboard" thing, but then found a better method. Buy some "Xmas light suction cups", combine with some white tack (to no-fuss keep them in place) to affix to edge of desk, route mouse cable through the cable clip on the suction cup. No more dragging, and easy adjustment of how much slack there is in the cable.
Ever since I spotted them in a DIY store some 4 years ago I've been using them for all manner of desktop cables: mouse, keyboard, headphones, TrackIR 5 Pro Clip....
Or at least if it does, they'll be slow. The security level for LineageOS 14.1 on Samsung Galaxy S4 (jfltexx) only got bumped to the January 2019 level in the past couple of days (and this only in the source code tracker, no new build yet), just as these February updates were released. They're building about one nightly a month for the device now, so I'd have to compile my own to even be just one patch level behind.
No snark intended at LineageOS. They're doing what they can with the resources (developer time) they have. If said S4 wasn't merely my emergency "crap my main phone broke/was lost" device I might see if I have the skills to help out.
But alternate ROMs are by no means a complete solution to this issue as things currently stand.
Sure, but then the problem may be that no-one actually fully understands how such AI works. See scenarios based on 'growing' an AI in a similar manner to how biological intelligences work, including raising from a child-like state.
Then there are the ethical implications, including the consequences of switching off a true AI.
But then you have to take into account that any IPv6 endpoint is meant to have a whole/64 to itself to allow for the automatic host part of an address based on MAC address, or the privacy addresses, or.... And then any ISP is meant to be giving/56 (or even more) to each customer, so as to allow them to do some subnetting themselves without abusing the/64 (like I do).
So, we're mostly left with something like 2^56 effective IPv6 addresses, 2^64 if you squint. It's still a huge number, but not anything like as large as the full 2^128.
I personally know at least two women who took the pill and loved the effects, not least because their primary reason for taking it wasn't birth control but the changes it brought to other symptoms associated with their menstrual cycles. Going from frequent intense headaches and stomach problems to actually being able to function was a game changer for them.
But then you could achieve the parcel delivery checking with any non-spoofable device. Heck, if you want to be sure they did the job you put the tracking chip in the parcel itself. Just one problem, what's going to be detecting that? In this work case scenario there'll be trackers all over the workplace pinging whatever chips are in range.
How does that NOT only tell you that you have the same weight on both sides (and by proxy the same mass, under the assumption 'g' isn't changing across the relatively small dimensions of the device) ? If that's so then you still only have a way to compare a new mass to a reference mass.
And if you tell me "well, it's a test mass on one side, and then electromagnetic force on the other", then surely the latter is then balancing against local 'g' and we're back to the variable 'g' problem.
I'm not saying you're wrong. I'm saying all the explanations of exactly why this is a better method of defining the kilogram don't seem to actually explain how and why it works for this.
I do know that there is/was an alternate new method which involved creating a very, very pure and very, very perfect sphere of silicon of just the right diameter to match the current kg test mass. This starts with the assumption that you then have something with no impurities and can re-create it at any time... but then I learned that the prototype work relied on *one* man with the skill to polish such an object to the accuracy required, by hand! Hardly easily re-producable!
The first is that only 63 networks appear to reject routes where the ROA indicates an invalid origination of the route. Out of some 63,000 networks in today’s routing system that’s a very small number. Hopefully, this situation will improve over time.
The second observation is that the ROAs would only have been effective if these route leaks were inadvertent operational mistakes. If these route leaks were deliberate routing hijacks, then the attackers would’ve been able to create the hijacked route with the ROA-defined origin AS. While the prudent use of the maxlength parameter in the ROA could’ve mitigated more specific attacks, the potential for routing disruption based on deliberate hijacks, while preserving the origin AS, still remains.
I'm quite sure management is also capable of overriding any such use of SSH keys on the ground that they can't put them in a safe in the same way, and don't really understand what all this public key cryptography nonsense is about. Or, you know, similar ignorant motivations.
the list of plain text passwords was particularly problematic, given it provided root admin access to the ISP's firewalls, core routers and switches, servers, and wireless access points
Even 20 years ago the ISP I worked at went to some lengths (custom patches for easy management of it) to use per-admin SSH keys to mediate access to anything with SSH available, instead of having everyone needing access to a password. This not only requires access to the private half of the passphrased key, but also means you can revoke one admin's access without immediately affecting anyone else (yes, I know, a malicious admin might have used the access they had to install a backdoor).
So now I'm wondering if this particular ISP's admins/management (they might have overridden the admins on this) were just that incompetent, or if the article is glossing over details.
The gyros are for sensing orientation, although they do also contain ball bearings so might be afflicted by the same root cause. The same units also have components with the ability to create a magnetic field to push on the Earth's in order to help when the reaction wheels are saturated.
Actually no, it isn't. Changing business hours entails changing anything that cites them, so at least signage for shops. But more importantly it requires to some degree gambling that all other pertinent businesses will also change their business hours. "You first!".
The (permanent) clock change forces everyone to simply do this unless they then want to go to the trouble of bucking the trend.
But, yes, I agree that actually changing business hours would be the 'neater' thing to do in the long run.
It would be off for most of the country anyway. You do not want everywhere using Local Solar Time, as we did that in the UK back when railways first became popular and it caused all sorts of timetable problems.
And as I mentioned in another comment, part of the issue is that business hours aren't centred around local solar noon. Being on +1 at least partially corrects this, and is an easier change to get everyone to accept. The alternative is trying to get everyone to open business an hour earlier (and presumably start school earlier too, so that parents can drop off the kids and then get to work).
I used to be stridently against any form of DST. Then I realised that one thing that being +1 achieves is to move the middle of business hours closer to local solar noon. 09h->17h is offset exactly one hour, add in DST and local 09h is now solar 08h, likewise 17h -> 16h, and you have properly distributed the available daylight either side of the middle of the business hours. Obviously business hours aren't as fixed as this, in the UK often being 09:00->17:30 or even until 18:00, so it's not perfect, but it's a step in the right direction.
And doing this with permanent DST is easier than trying to get all schools and businesses to actually shift their hours around.
And that's why, when I filled in the EU questionnaire, I expressed a preference for what has turned out to be the majority opinion.
For those parts (latitude bands) of the world where DST can possibly make a difference to the amount of daylight at either end of the day there's too little of it in the depths of Winter anyway! Further north than that has too little and this is a change for no good reason, and further south there's no need as they maintain enough daylight hours even in Winter.
Yup, Mutt is still my primary email client. I do have a roundcube-based webmail available on that server as well though (mostly for other users, but sometimes there's that email that's HTML and is a pain in the ass to view with links/lynx/w3m/whatever so I sigh and use it). K-9 Mail on Android if I need to read it on the go.
GMail gets occasional use as a 'throwaway' account (and I have an Android phone), but all email to it gets forwarded to the proper email account anyway.
With many sea-based species already being under high stress would the environmental impact of such mining push many of those in the area to extinction ?
I may mostly be looking through the comments to find people who didn't catch that part of the summary. Indeed, the bill as proposed covers this. I'd expect that to be the first clause to be killed in any revisions though.
Did some just take a beginners' philosophy class ?
Physics as we know it says this type of transfer isn't even possible. Whilst the OP mentioned Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle it seemed to miss that it means you fundamentally can't do this. You canNOT measure perfectly (enough even) the position *and* momentum (energy) of anything at sufficient level to re-create it elsewhere (even assuming you could). Star Trek techno-babbled "Heisenberg Compensators" to address this, but that's completely fiction.
If it *was* possible, well, then you given it's fantasy you can argue as to if the scanning/reading in *would* be destructive or not (Quantum Mechanics says the measurement will also change the state, but we're in fantasy land here...). If it's not then you have what's been covered by some SF stories, e.g. something goes wrong during transmission, and as you're not sure if a new copy is active at the destination you don't yet destroy the original. If communication issues persist then you may later find the new copy is perfectly fine. Now what do you do to the original ? If the original is destroyed in the process then you'd better hope the copying process works else you've just committed definite murder.
As for waking after sleep... are we even the same person we were before our last conscious thought process? Unconscious one ? Anyone who's ever had their mind changed about something,or experienced anything new has this happen whilst awake.
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I used to do that "loop around rear foot of keyboard" thing, but then found a better method. Buy some "Xmas light suction cups", combine with some white tack (to no-fuss keep them in place) to affix to edge of desk, route mouse cable through the cable clip on the suction cup. No more dragging, and easy adjustment of how much slack there is in the cable.
Ever since I spotted them in a DIY store some 4 years ago I've been using them for all manner of desktop cables: mouse, keyboard, headphones, TrackIR 5 Pro Clip ....
Or at least if it does, they'll be slow. The security level for LineageOS 14.1 on Samsung Galaxy S4 (jfltexx) only got bumped to the January 2019 level in the past couple of days (and this only in the source code tracker, no new build yet), just as these February updates were released. They're building about one nightly a month for the device now, so I'd have to compile my own to even be just one patch level behind.
No snark intended at LineageOS. They're doing what they can with the resources (developer time) they have. If said S4 wasn't merely my emergency "crap my main phone broke/was lost" device I might see if I have the skills to help out.
But alternate ROMs are by no means a complete solution to this issue as things currently stand.
Sure, but then the problem may be that no-one actually fully understands how such AI works. See scenarios based on 'growing' an AI in a similar manner to how biological intelligences work, including raising from a child-like state.
Then there are the ethical implications, including the consequences of switching off a true AI.
But then you have to take into account that any IPv6 endpoint is meant to have a whole /64 to itself to allow for the automatic host part of an address based on MAC address, or the privacy addresses, or .... And then any ISP is meant to be giving /56 (or even more) to each customer, so as to allow them to do some subnetting themselves without abusing the /64 (like I do).
So, we're mostly left with something like 2^56 effective IPv6 addresses, 2^64 if you squint. It's still a huge number, but not anything like as large as the full 2^128.
I personally know at least two women who took the pill and loved the effects, not least because their primary reason for taking it wasn't birth control but the changes it brought to other symptoms associated with their menstrual cycles. Going from frequent intense headaches and stomach problems to actually being able to function was a game changer for them.
"Fortunately" in the event of a hard brexit we'll still have all the UK laws that enacted EU legislation. It'll take some time to undo it all.
But then you could achieve the parcel delivery checking with any non-spoofable device. Heck, if you want to be sure they did the job you put the tracking chip in the parcel itself. Just one problem, what's going to be detecting that? In this work case scenario there'll be trackers all over the workplace pinging whatever chips are in range.
So fix the summary!
You missed "and you can determine local g accurately by ...", but realising that has given me the last part of the puzzle.
Presumably it's possible to measure that at a given site by various means, perhaps timing the drop of an object in a vacuum.
How does that NOT only tell you that you have the same weight on both sides (and by proxy the same mass, under the assumption 'g' isn't changing across the relatively small dimensions of the device) ? If that's so then you still only have a way to compare a new mass to a reference mass.
And if you tell me "well, it's a test mass on one side, and then electromagnetic force on the other", then surely the latter is then balancing against local 'g' and we're back to the variable 'g' problem.
I'm not saying you're wrong. I'm saying all the explanations of exactly why this is a better method of defining the kilogram don't seem to actually explain how and why it works for this.
I do know that there is/was an alternate new method which involved creating a very, very pure and very, very perfect sphere of silicon of just the right diameter to match the current kg test mass. This starts with the assumption that you then have something with no impurities and can re-create it at any time... but then I learned that the prototype work relied on *one* man with the skill to polish such an object to the accuracy required, by hand! Hardly easily re-producable!
There are moves afoot to address this, but not currently going so well: https://blog.apnic.net/2018/10...
I'm quite sure management is also capable of overriding any such use of SSH keys on the ground that they can't put them in a safe in the same way, and don't really understand what all this public key cryptography nonsense is about. Or, you know, similar ignorant motivations.
Even 20 years ago the ISP I worked at went to some lengths (custom patches for easy management of it) to use per-admin SSH keys to mediate access to anything with SSH available, instead of having everyone needing access to a password. This not only requires access to the private half of the passphrased key, but also means you can revoke one admin's access without immediately affecting anyone else (yes, I know, a malicious admin might have used the access they had to install a backdoor).
So now I'm wondering if this particular ISP's admins/management (they might have overridden the admins on this) were just that incompetent, or if the article is glossing over details.
... and quietly point users at third party resources for installing such themselves? Sure works for third party ROMs like LineageOS.
The findings about solar flares and ball bearings was specifically about reaction wheels: https://hackaday.com/2018/09/1...
The gyros are for sensing orientation, although they do also contain ball bearings so might be afflicted by the same root cause. The same units also have components with the ability to create a magnetic field to push on the Earth's in order to help when the reaction wheels are saturated.
https://www.spacetelescope.org/about/general/gyroscopes/
Actually no, it isn't. Changing business hours entails changing anything that cites them, so at least signage for shops. But more importantly it requires to some degree gambling that all other pertinent businesses will also change their business hours. "You first!".
The (permanent) clock change forces everyone to simply do this unless they then want to go to the trouble of bucking the trend.
But, yes, I agree that actually changing business hours would be the 'neater' thing to do in the long run.
It would be off for most of the country anyway. You do not want everywhere using Local Solar Time, as we did that in the UK back when railways first became popular and it caused all sorts of timetable problems.
And as I mentioned in another comment, part of the issue is that business hours aren't centred around local solar noon. Being on +1 at least partially corrects this, and is an easier change to get everyone to accept. The alternative is trying to get everyone to open business an hour earlier (and presumably start school earlier too, so that parents can drop off the kids and then get to work).
I used to be stridently against any form of DST. Then I realised that one thing that being +1 achieves is to move the middle of business hours closer to local solar noon. 09h->17h is offset exactly one hour, add in DST and local 09h is now solar 08h, likewise 17h -> 16h, and you have properly distributed the available daylight either side of the middle of the business hours. Obviously business hours aren't as fixed as this, in the UK often being 09:00->17:30 or even until 18:00, so it's not perfect, but it's a step in the right direction.
And doing this with permanent DST is easier than trying to get all schools and businesses to actually shift their hours around.
And that's why, when I filled in the EU questionnaire, I expressed a preference for what has turned out to be the majority opinion.
For those parts (latitude bands) of the world where DST can possibly make a difference to the amount of daylight at either end of the day there's too little of it in the depths of Winter anyway! Further north than that has too little and this is a change for no good reason, and further south there's no need as they maintain enough daylight hours even in Winter.
Some theorise that this is already happening: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Or, indeed, get a refund on a phone/OS that obviously isn't fit for purpose if user-level software running at 100% can cause physical damage to it.
Yup, Mutt is still my primary email client. I do have a roundcube-based webmail available on that server as well though (mostly for other users, but sometimes there's that email that's HTML and is a pain in the ass to view with links/lynx/w3m/whatever so I sigh and use it). K-9 Mail on Android if I need to read it on the go.
GMail gets occasional use as a 'throwaway' account (and I have an Android phone), but all email to it gets forwarded to the proper email account anyway.
With many sea-based species already being under high stress would the environmental impact of such mining push many of those in the area to extinction ?
I may mostly be looking through the comments to find people who didn't catch that part of the summary. Indeed, the bill as proposed covers this. I'd expect that to be the first clause to be killed in any revisions though.
Indeed, GP shows they didn't even RTFS let alone RTFA.
However that clause is exactly the part of this proposed bill that I'd be surprised if it survived through to eventually being signed into law.
Did some just take a beginners' philosophy class ?
Physics as we know it says this type of transfer isn't even possible. Whilst the OP mentioned Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle it seemed to miss that it means you fundamentally can't do this. You canNOT measure perfectly (enough even) the position *and* momentum (energy) of anything at sufficient level to re-create it elsewhere (even assuming you could). Star Trek techno-babbled "Heisenberg Compensators" to address this, but that's completely fiction.
If it *was* possible, well, then you given it's fantasy you can argue as to if the scanning/reading in *would* be destructive or not (Quantum Mechanics says the measurement will also change the state, but we're in fantasy land here...). If it's not then you have what's been covered by some SF stories, e.g. something goes wrong during transmission, and as you're not sure if a new copy is active at the destination you don't yet destroy the original. If communication issues persist then you may later find the new copy is perfectly fine. Now what do you do to the original ? If the original is destroyed in the process then you'd better hope the copying process works else you've just committed definite murder.
As for waking after sleep... are we even the same person we were before our last conscious thought process? Unconscious one ? Anyone who's ever had their mind changed about something,or experienced anything new has this happen whilst awake.