Also, making a blend taste like a single malt is a ridiculous claim. It's akin to claiming a device can turn fruit-punch into pineapple juice. Where do the other flavours go?
You could create such a "device" in theory. What you'd have would more likely be a genetically engineered microorganism which needed to be mixed with the drink in question.
You can age Whiskey in a bottle? I thought it stopped aging as soon as it goes into a glass container. It's one of the differences between itself and wine.
The taste of both dosn't come from the ethanol. The only way something in a bottle can change is by chemical reactions taking place inside the bottle. If these happened to be endothermic reactions then such a device could speed them up. But it would be simpler to just warm the bottle a little.
Sure, that would be a nuisance, but if Google purhcases at all led to leaked card numbers and this at all took place on some scale, it would very fast bite Google and ruin their reputation in a way I don't think they'd be willing to take.
If it were in anyone's interests for this to happen then they'd be running exactly this risk. Google would be foolish to believe that none of their employees could be "double agents" for a rival company...
I want to say verify identity with a credit/debit card, but that won't work very well because of Johnny 13 year old who wants a Gmail account.
There are several other problems with this. It will give criminals another reason to want fake/stolen card information. Google is likely to be storing a lot of card information. Finally such "verification" is probably against the card issuers' terms and conditions.
Plastic is amongst the "dirtiest" compounds in manufacturing. They commonly contain plasticisers, colorants, residual monomers, oligomers and solvents, all of whom can, and most likely will evaporate.
They are likely to evaporate faster with a heat source. I'd love to know how you could get any kind of smell without "odour containing chemicals" though:)
You clearly know nothing about how the government deals with classified data. Classified data is considered kind of like a virus, not the computer kind, but the biological kind. If the classified data was in a memory card in the camera, the camera itself is contaminated. If the camera was plugged into a computer, then the computer itself is contaminated. Anything electronic device that the computer touched is then considered to be contaminated.
Depending on your definition of "touched" that could include every electronic device on the planet except those powered only by non rechargeable batteries:)
The purpose of the bill was to act as a placebo for hysterical traders who literally have no idea what is happening and who cannot be relied upon to either calm down or trade rationally. I don't mean collectively speaking. I mean on an individual basis. That bill was a mass Valium prescription for a mass of people who are a danger to themselves and society. Taking it away was like dosing a crazy person with amphetamines, putting them in room 101, then giving them explosives and a loaded shotgun. Predictably, the traders and money men completely lost the run of themselves, and had a good old fashioned Panic Attack.
Wouldn't it be cheaper to gives these people actual benzodiazepines though...
Please vote against the proposed 700 billion dollar taxpayer funded bank bail-out. I do not want my taxes going to pay bankers, speculators, and risk-taking borrowers. I should not have to pay for their financial sins.
Maybe instead those responsible should be putting their hands in their pockets.
Other Democrats also deserve blame for passing laws allowing banks to give mortgages without any downpayment ("every person deserves a home even if they cannot afford it"),
Together with lending substantially more than the value of properties. The initial effect of this being to drive up property prices and make banks money out of the first few sets of defaulters. Problem is that a high rate of property price increase can't be sustained in the long term. People who have money are going to be reluctant to take out mortgages they can't afford because they are risking their own money.
but that's a minor flaw we probably could have survived, if the original 1930s law requiring banks to have real money backed by real assets (no stocks) was still in effect.
These banks might not be in a good financial situation, but they'd unlikely to be bankrupt.
Currently, CO2 is scrubbed using lithium salts, which are not only heavy, but also caustic, and have a limited service life before requiring replacement.
Lithium hydroxide is the lightest possible alkali metal hydroxide. With the heaviest part being the oxygen...
If they discover a way to electronically reduce the carbon dioxide into elemental carbon, things will be even more interesting.
This may be Bad Math, but... The article says, "The tower unit was able to capture the equivalent of approximately 20 tonnes per year of CO2 on a single square metre of scrubbing material
How often are you going to have to remove this material? Probably fairly frequently considering that it is going to be accumulating something like 55kg per day.
The scrubber sounds pretty effective. No waiting for it to grow, and it's more space-efficient, which is good for cities and industrialized areas.
Trees are fairly "low maintainence" and produce at least one useful by product. Some (including one which should be obvious to Canadians) produce more than one useful product.
Don't we have a device that removes CO2 from the air? I thought they were called "trees."
Any green plant will do. How difficult would it be to pipe the exhaust from a coal fired powerstation through some greenhouses. Which is the obvious place to put a "greenhouse gas" in the first place:)
Translation: Tao claims that an electric field reduces fuel droplet size. Nowhere in the article do I find anything that indicates he actually demonstrated it. And most likely the claim is bogus. Gasoline isn't polar, and shouldn't react to an electric field. Nor should an electric field in a fluid continue to have any effect after the fluid has passed through it.
AFAIK with a gasoline engine (even GDI) you don't want droplets of fuel so much as gaseous fuel well mixer with air. With a diesel engine your inject fuel into compressed air which results in immediate ignition. Smaller drops would result in more rapid combustion. Which could save fuel if it would otherwise be the case that the combustion would be incomplete and less fuel is being injected in the first place. Once you get to operating an actual engine (even of the simplist design) there are lots of variables involved.
Basic research does not require double blind testing. Tao appropriately demonstrated that a) application of an electric field does in fact reduce fuel droplet size and b) there is significantly increased efficiency in laboratory measured horsepower.
Basic research usually takes place in a laboratory. If the car had stayed in the lab and had it's engine controlled entirely by a machine then this might qualify as "basic research" not needing any kind of double blind testing. However having the car driven on the road (even a test track) does require such testing because the care is then being driven by a human.
The Cablevision and Road Runner services both only hijack DNS no-such-domain errors, not HTTP 404s. Neither is a good thing, but hijacking DNS is much less insidious than the deep-packet inspection or mandatory proxying required to hijack 404 errors.
The problem is that there is no reason to assume that just because a machine is making a DNS query it intends opening a TCP connection to port 80 (or 443). The people doing this had better have made sure that the machine serving these ads can cope with being bombarded with random IP traffic:)
Well, arguably you are correct, assuming they can fix the problem on a single repair mission. There is now so much that needs fixing that they may need to make two missions to Hubble. (The fact that NASA claims this is the "final repair mission" and yet is going to insist on installing a docking port... That's a strong hint to me that they see nothing final about this at all. Why add a docking port if there's nothing in future that is going to dock with it?)
At what point would it be cheaper to replace the whole thing? (Parts of this machine must be close to 30 years old.) Remembering to get the mirror right this time.
Almost three years ago, our dishwasher (which was only a year old at the time) stopped working. After a bit of troubleshooting I determined that the solenoid valve in the water intake was shot - my multimeter indicated that it was receiving an electrical signal, but the valve wouldn't open so the dishwasher couldn't fill.
I whacked it with a hammer and it's been working flawlessly ever since.
But it would have been rather more difficult if you didn't have gravity to hold your dishwasher (and feet) to the floor
Except that the publishers already make that claim, and the courts continue to (for the most part) discount it and rule that software is sold, not licensed.
Presumably most judges take the position that if something looks like a sale then it is a sale. Regardless of what may be claimed after the event. Especially if it the publisher isn't selling directly to the customer.
The military didn't invent mechanically propelled vehicles at all. The first steam engine was used for pumping water out of private mines. Richard Trevithic was the inventor IIRC,
Travithic was a pioneer of steam vehicles. He tried at least two designs of "road locomotive" before developing one which ran on rails, though it turned out that the tramways of the time were not up to handling the weight of a steam locomotive.
and James Watt improved the efficiency.
Watt was more into building stationary engines and was very much against high pressure steam.
If only we had more data available, we could stop all crime!
It's perfectly possible for too much data to actually hinder activities such as crime prevention and investigation. Someone who dosn't realise this is halfway to creating a positive feedback loop already.
Much like I can loan/sell Books/CDs/Movies. I think first someone has to justify why games are some special type of copyright material that can't be loaned/sold.
Just because publishers would like it to be so, doesn't make it so. They are attempting to end first sale doctrine exception of copyright by build walls to stop it, that doesn't mean they have the right to stop it.
IIRC the "first sale doctrine" originates from book publishers trying to impose similar conditions, about a century ago. To be subsequently told by the courts to take a running jump.
It sounds bull to me that you can so easily change the viscosity of an apolar fluid with electricity. Most of the molecules in gasoline are nonpolar, and not even polarisable, so I doubt an electrical field has much influence if any at all on such a liquid.
They were using a diesel engine. However even "bio-diesel" isn't likely to contain much in the way of free organic acids or alcohols. Only if you were running a "gas" engine on using a liquid alcohol (or mixture of alcohols) would this be the case. The actual idea appears to be that electrostatic repulsion will either result in the creation of smaller droplets or prevent droplets combining once the fuel leaves the injectors. Assuming that the combustion involves liquid fuel. AFAIK this can only happen with diesel engines. Where there is spark ignition the idea is that the fuel is a gas when it is mixed with air and compressed.
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Also, making a blend taste like a single malt is a ridiculous claim. It's akin to claiming a device can turn fruit-punch into pineapple juice. Where do the other flavours go?
You could create such a "device" in theory. What you'd have would more likely be a genetically engineered microorganism which needed to be mixed with the drink in question.
You can age Whiskey in a bottle? I thought it stopped aging as soon as it goes into a glass container. It's one of the differences between itself and wine.
The taste of both dosn't come from the ethanol.
The only way something in a bottle can change is by chemical reactions taking place inside the bottle. If these happened to be endothermic reactions then such a device could speed them up. But it would be simpler to just warm the bottle a little.
Sure, that would be a nuisance, but if Google purhcases at all led to leaked card numbers and this at all took place on some scale, it would very fast bite Google and ruin their reputation in a way I don't think they'd be willing to take.
If it were in anyone's interests for this to happen then they'd be running exactly this risk. Google would be foolish to believe that none of their employees could be "double agents" for a rival company...
I want to say verify identity with a credit/debit card, but that won't work very well because of Johnny 13 year old who wants a Gmail account.
There are several other problems with this. It will give criminals another reason to want fake/stolen card information. Google is likely to be storing a lot of card information. Finally such "verification" is probably against the card issuers' terms and conditions.
Plastic is amongst the "dirtiest" compounds in manufacturing. They commonly contain plasticisers, colorants, residual monomers, oligomers and solvents, all of whom can, and most likely will evaporate.
:)
They are likely to evaporate faster with a heat source.
I'd love to know how you could get any kind of smell without "odour containing chemicals" though
You clearly know nothing about how the government deals with classified data. Classified data is considered kind of like a virus, not the computer kind, but the biological kind. If the classified data was in a memory card in the camera, the camera itself is contaminated. If the camera was plugged into a computer, then the computer itself is contaminated. Anything electronic device that the computer touched is then considered to be contaminated.
:)
Depending on your definition of "touched" that could include every electronic device on the planet except those powered only by non rechargeable batteries
The purpose of the bill was to act as a placebo for hysterical traders who literally have no idea what is happening and who cannot be relied upon to either calm down or trade rationally. I don't mean collectively speaking. I mean on an individual basis. That bill was a mass Valium prescription for a mass of people who are a danger to themselves and society. Taking it away was like dosing a crazy person with amphetamines, putting them in room 101, then giving them explosives and a loaded shotgun. Predictably, the traders and money men completely lost the run of themselves, and had a good old fashioned Panic Attack.
Wouldn't it be cheaper to gives these people actual benzodiazepines though...
Please vote against the proposed 700 billion dollar taxpayer funded bank bail-out. I do not want my taxes going to pay bankers, speculators, and risk-taking borrowers. I should not have to pay for their financial sins.
Maybe instead those responsible should be putting their hands in their pockets.
Other Democrats also deserve blame for passing laws allowing banks to give mortgages without any downpayment ("every person deserves a home even if they cannot afford it"),
Together with lending substantially more than the value of properties. The initial effect of this being to drive up property prices and make banks money out of the first few sets of defaulters. Problem is that a high rate of property price increase can't be sustained in the long term. People who have money are going to be reluctant to take out mortgages they can't afford because they are risking their own money.
but that's a minor flaw we probably could have survived, if the original 1930s law requiring banks to have real money backed by real assets (no stocks) was still in effect.
These banks might not be in a good financial situation, but they'd unlikely to be bankrupt.
Currently, CO2 is scrubbed using lithium salts, which are not only heavy, but also caustic, and have a limited service life before requiring replacement.
Lithium hydroxide is the lightest possible alkali metal hydroxide. With the heaviest part being the oxygen...
If they discover a way to electronically reduce the carbon dioxide into elemental carbon, things will be even more interesting.
What do you then do with the resulting carbon?
This may be Bad Math, but... The article says, "The tower unit was able to capture the equivalent of approximately 20 tonnes per year of CO2 on a single square metre of scrubbing material
How often are you going to have to remove this material? Probably fairly frequently considering that it is going to be accumulating something like 55kg per day.
The scrubber sounds pretty effective. No waiting for it to grow, and it's more space-efficient, which is good for cities and industrialized areas.
Trees are fairly "low maintainence" and produce at least one useful by product. Some (including one which should be obvious to Canadians) produce more than one useful product.
Don't we have a device that removes CO2 from the air? I thought they were called "trees."
:)
Any green plant will do. How difficult would it be to pipe the exhaust from a coal fired powerstation through some greenhouses. Which is the obvious place to put a "greenhouse gas" in the first place
but since im american, "council" means immediately nothing to me.
A Q&D translation would be "Local Government".
This is why you never talk to the police.
Better off to do as the person who found the stuff on the train did. Go to the press ensure that any handover is as public as it can possibly be.
Translation: Tao claims that an electric field reduces fuel droplet size. Nowhere in the article do I find anything that indicates he actually demonstrated it. And most likely the claim is bogus. Gasoline isn't polar, and shouldn't react to an electric field. Nor should an electric field in a fluid continue to have any effect after the fluid has passed through it.
AFAIK with a gasoline engine (even GDI) you don't want droplets of fuel so much as gaseous fuel well mixer with air.
With a diesel engine your inject fuel into compressed air which results in immediate ignition. Smaller drops would result in more rapid combustion. Which could save fuel if it would otherwise be the case that the combustion would be incomplete and less fuel is being injected in the first place.
Once you get to operating an actual engine (even of the simplist design) there are lots of variables involved.
Basic research does not require double blind testing. Tao appropriately demonstrated that a) application of an electric field does in fact reduce fuel droplet size and b) there is significantly increased efficiency in laboratory measured horsepower.
Basic research usually takes place in a laboratory. If the car had stayed in the lab and had it's engine controlled entirely by a machine then this might qualify as "basic research" not needing any kind of double blind testing.
However having the car driven on the road (even a test track) does require such testing because the care is then being driven by a human.
Mail, for instance. Now I'll send my mail to the wrong server instead of getting a host unknown error.
Or instead of being told straight away that the domain is invalid it'll be days before your MTA gives up...
The Cablevision and Road Runner services both only hijack DNS no-such-domain errors, not HTTP 404s. Neither is a good thing, but hijacking DNS is much less insidious than the deep-packet inspection or mandatory proxying required to hijack 404 errors.
:)
The problem is that there is no reason to assume that just because a machine is making a DNS query it intends opening a TCP connection to port 80 (or 443). The people doing this had better have made sure that the machine serving these ads can cope with being bombarded with random IP traffic
Well, arguably you are correct, assuming they can fix the problem on a single repair mission. There is now so much that needs fixing that they may need to make two missions to Hubble. (The fact that NASA claims this is the "final repair mission" and yet is going to insist on installing a docking port... That's a strong hint to me that they see nothing final about this at all. Why add a docking port if there's nothing in future that is going to dock with it?)
At what point would it be cheaper to replace the whole thing? (Parts of this machine must be close to 30 years old.) Remembering to get the mirror right this time.
Almost three years ago, our dishwasher (which was only a year old at the time) stopped working. After a bit of troubleshooting I determined that the solenoid valve in the water intake was shot - my multimeter indicated that it was receiving an electrical signal, but the valve wouldn't open so the dishwasher couldn't fill.
I whacked it with a hammer and it's been working flawlessly ever since.
But it would have been rather more difficult if you didn't have gravity to hold your dishwasher (and feet) to the floor
Except that the publishers already make that claim, and the courts continue to (for the most part) discount it and rule that software is sold, not licensed.
Presumably most judges take the position that if something looks like a sale then it is a sale. Regardless of what may be claimed after the event. Especially if it the publisher isn't selling directly to the customer.
The military didn't invent mechanically propelled vehicles at all. The first steam engine was used for pumping water out of private mines. Richard Trevithic was the inventor IIRC,
Travithic was a pioneer of steam vehicles. He tried at least two designs of "road locomotive" before developing one which ran on rails, though it turned out that the tramways of the time were not up to handling the weight of a steam locomotive.
and James Watt improved the efficiency.
Watt was more into building stationary engines and was very much against high pressure steam.
If only we had more data available, we could stop all crime!
It's perfectly possible for too much data to actually hinder activities such as crime prevention and investigation. Someone who dosn't realise this is halfway to creating a positive feedback loop already.
Much like I can loan/sell Books/CDs/Movies. I think first someone has to justify why games are some special type of copyright material that can't be loaned/sold.
Just because publishers would like it to be so, doesn't make it so. They are attempting to end first sale doctrine exception of copyright by build walls to stop it, that doesn't mean they have the right to stop it.
IIRC the "first sale doctrine" originates from book publishers trying to impose similar conditions, about a century ago. To be subsequently told by the courts to take a running jump.
It sounds bull to me that you can so easily change the viscosity of an apolar fluid with electricity. Most of the molecules in gasoline are nonpolar, and not even polarisable, so I doubt an electrical field has much influence if any at all on such a liquid.
They were using a diesel engine. However even "bio-diesel" isn't likely to contain much in the way of free organic acids or alcohols. Only if you were running a "gas" engine on using a liquid alcohol (or mixture of alcohols) would this be the case.
The actual idea appears to be that electrostatic repulsion will either result in the creation of smaller droplets or prevent droplets combining once the fuel leaves the injectors. Assuming that the combustion involves liquid fuel. AFAIK this can only happen with diesel engines. Where there is spark ignition the idea is that the fuel is a gas when it is mixed with air and compressed.