A robust system would mean the hosting company wouldn't be more able to decypher encrypted damage than anyone else. Are they offering that?
About the only obvious way to do this in a secure way would be "client side". Such that all that is ever stored (and transmitted) would be cyphertext. (Without it being knowlable to Google or the "spooks" even what encryption algorithm was used.)
Polyester resin is kind of a staple product. In post-industrial societies, it's sold for recreation in craft stores. But in less developed places, it's needed for boat building and all sorts of fabrication. Before 3D printers with their costly supplies, we made molds and used resin for pennies.
I imagine they are chosing it over tar or pitch due to availability as much as any other factor.
Or more likely that it won't melt in hot weather. Since 2kg lumps dropping from the ceiling tend to be hazardous.
Have you ever actually frozen a soda bottle? They survive just fine through many freeze-thaw cycles even while being exposed to UV. My mom used a wall of water-filled soda bottles as a way of regulating the temperature near some of her plants. They sat outside for years of winters before we got rid of them all.
In some places such bottles are reused. Since regular bottling lines both wash and pressure test every bottle it dosn't matter if you feed them old, new or mixed old&new bottles.
I once tried filling a PET shampoo bottle with water (same plastic as soda bottles) and then freezing it to expand the plastic. I'd then top it off again so the next time it would freeze-expand bigger. The bottle got to about 150% normal size before I just gave up.
Different grade of plastic, quite likely more plasticiser. Not designed to contain a fluid under pressure.
Ok, first up when you fertilise an egg you have no real control over what bits of genetic material comes from which parent in many cases. Sometimes it is predetermined by dominant / recessive genes but for other stuff there is a huge element of chance in there.
Part of meiosis involve swapping segments between chromosomes to ensure that gametes are highly genetically diverse.
Cloning completely removes this from the equation which is actually the whole point.
Cloning dosn't remove all randomness. In female mammals one X chromosome is typically disabled, but this occurs at a multi-cellular stage.
The manufacturer should have the ability to push an "unsafe firmware" notice to the device. If the device sees that flag, it should immediately flag that version of the firmware as potentially dangerous. If it is currently booted from the unsafe version and if it has another version installed that is not flagged, it should immediately find a safe spot to pull over, pull over, reboot from the other version of the firmware, and continue the trip.
How do you stop someone maliciously sending out such a message? A "signing" mechanism has the problem that the relevent keys must be easily available to a large number of "authorised people".
I remember when Sky (UK subscription tv) started up. You had to pay to get it but there were very few adverts and people really rated that. Over time it's gotten to the point where Sky seem to have more (probably just as much in truth) adverts as the free to watch channels.
There's also quite a lot of programming around the 42 minute mark. Which tends to be show in either a 60 minute slot with lots of ads (which is similar to the way things are done in the US) or a 45 minute slot without ads. Rules intended too restrict advertising tend have the effect of more "trailers" being played which are if anything more annoying than commerical adverts. The only times such channels appear to even consider 50 or 55 minute slots is between midnight and 6 am.
I've at least glanced at a lot of Web articles about most/least healthy foods. Pretty much every food has been attacked by one nutritionist or another, but one group that seems to be universally approved are berries. We're all supposed to eat our berries. Well, guess what. Berries have lots of sucrose.
Berries tend to be small fruits, with the exception of some tomatoes, so fairly easy to eat a small portion.
I was experiencing type II diabetic symptoms with increasing frequency. It was messing up my life.
Solution?
Low carb diet. Meats and saturated fats. I cut out breads entirely. If you keep your sugar intakes to about 70 grams per day or less, you're doing well. This meant cutting out most fruit. Even a potato converts into a lot of sugar.
The amount of dietary glucose T2 diabetics are able to handle varies greatly. For some 70g/day would be far too much. The only sure method is that of "eat to your meter".
Turns out, cholesterol and saturated fats are GOOD for you. We've been lied to, yet again, in this particular case, by agribusiness and big pharma.
Where things get really interesting is that hypocholesterolemia cause similar symptoms to diabetes. Most notably neuopathy.
Read, "Life Without Bread" for the basics. It could save your life and reverse your mom's condition. $10 for a book or years of misery? Not a hard choice.
If someone is taking insulin they need to both adjust their dosage and monitor their blood sugar levels when changing their diet in such a way. Probably even more so if they are T2 since a change of diet could affect insulin resistance making "carb counting" ineffective at working out the correct dosage.
After a few weeks, all symptoms went away and I feel great today. Been at it for a couple of years now. I used to get super cold fingers in the cold seasons, and I had to cuddle around heaters to stay warm. Not anymore. Also my by body fat has balanced out nicely. I look better than I have in years.
Sugar is the most basic kind of energy source. It's extremely important to your body, but as with everything, there are limits on what intake is healthy.
On the other hand the human body has a quite limited ability to store glucose and no ability to store fructose or galactose. With none of these being "essential nutrients" either.
1. The body is a chemical machine. It needs good balance. When people screw with it too much beyond its tollerance, it's bad. We know this already. We hear "balanced diet" all the time. Trouble is, "balanced diets" are mostly a lie and because of human diversity, what is balanced for one person isn't balanced for another.
There is an older phrase "one man's meat is another man's poison". Often a "one size fits all" approach appears in government sponsored dietary advice. (Even such obvious daftness as telling diabetics to eat huge amounts of glucose.)
if they did a scientific study of banning "large sugar drinks" and noticed that somehow the cost and expense to society and freedom of having taxpayer funded policing of drink sizes somehow was worth it, then maybe i would agree. but thats not what they studied.
The size of the cup/glass is also utterly meaningless if you can have as many "refills" as you like (especially if that is via a dispenser in the customer area.)
The study was about Glucose; the predominant sugar in soda drinks is Fructose, at least in the U.S., and because it lends itself to plumbing-based manufacturing of junk food rather than requiring auger gears to move powdered sweetener around, it's gaining ground in other countries junk food as well.
HFCS is typically 55% fructose and 45% glucose. (Outside of the US it would probably be made from wheat or potatoes rather than maize.) HFCS wouldn't exist without the maize subsidies and sugar tariffs in the US. By comparison sucrose is 53% fructose and 53% glucose. The extra 6% coming from the water used in the hydrolysis reaction to split sucrose into fructose and glucose. The most important difference is that HFCS has a higher Glycemic Index (GI) than sucrose. Because it can be adsorbed without any digestion being needed. Even though it contains less glucose more may end up in the general bloodstream since the liver preferentially converts fructose (and galactose) into fats. (Also liver cells need insulin to take up glucose. Which is not the case for either fructose or galactose.)
More ammo in the Bloomberg ammo depot to outlaw enormous sugary drinks and help lower the nation's health care costs by cutting down on seriously obese people.
The majority of most people's dietary glucose isn't from "sugar" however. This typically comes from plant amylopectin (followed by amylose). Thus it would actually make more sense to outlaw bread, pasta, potatoes, breakfast cereal, etc. before even considering anything which contains glucose, maltose, sucrose or lactose.
There are already five forms of diabetes. Type 1 (early onset, no pancreatic function, incurable); Type 1.5 (Late onset, no pancreatic function, incurable); Pre Type 2 Diabetes (insulin resistance building, possibly curable); Type 2 (late onset, insulin resistance, some pancreatic function, incurable); and Gestational Diabetes (hormonal imbalance create insulin resistance, temporary).
Actually you have three groups. Auto-immune: T1 and T1.5 (LADA). Insulin resistant: Pre-Diabetes, T2 and Gestational Diabetes. Mitochondial malfunction: Very misleadingly called Mature Onset Diabetes of the Young (MODY). N.B. it is possible for young people, especially women with PCOS, to have insulin resistance diabetes.
Only insulin resistant diabetes can be reversed (cured). Only in some cases, the degree & length of time of the insulin resistance along with injury to beta cells and liver due to glucotoxicity being possible factors here.
Putting a strip chart recording ammeter in line on hundreds of pc models we learned that they never get close to drawing what the power supply was ratrd for. We would monitor the mains cord and load the nastiest work load we could find. The worst power draw happens the instant you turn it on, while its spinning up the drive and loading the os.
As long as the population can be approximately 50/50 split over two parties (that both are attached to the puppeteer's strings) and political party fighting and mudslinging can be kept to a maximum over issues the Lesters don't care about, the populace will contentedly remain asleep and feel that they still have some actual power through the ballot box.
The most important thing would be to find out which issues the political parties tend to agree on. Since those would actually be the important issues...
Have a recent BMW? There is a known vulnerability where you can copy an actual key inside the car, using the data in the car's computer and the car's own transponder. BMW has not fixed this and won't fix it. The vulnerability is that BMW relied on being the only source of blank, programmable keys and having all the programming equipment in house.
Note that "in house" actually ment "at every BMW dealership" rather than "only at BMW HQ in Munich". They may well have not made any of the parts of the system themselves.
Once someone reversed the key system (the car itself contains unprotected, unencrypted key strings), they found out what electronics to put in the key and made blank keys and software to program them using the keys found in the car's computer. This is a massive problem that was out for probably at least a year before there was enough public attention to the enormous theft of BMWs with that system. I think that the number of BMWs stolen had quadrupled in that period. Right now, since BMW won't fix it, getting a BMW that suffers from this vulnerability is prohibitively expensive to insure, making their second hand value very low.
It isn't uncommon for car makers to refuse to fix faults unless force to by a regulator. Since this fault does not affect safety it may well be outside the remit of any regulator in Europe.
Right now, there's no indication that VW can and will fix this problem once it gets out.
It may already be "out" so far as car thieves are concerned. Wonder how many parts suppliers VW and BMW have in common.
And they call that a democracy, once, every 4 years, I have a choice between an evil one and a more evil one.
Maybe that's why in Classical Athens (where the concept of "democracy" was invented) they used "legislative juries" rather than elected representatives. The US Government very much modelled on that of Imperial Rome.
The people that wrongly declare that there were only two choice are a major part of the problem. Thats you, a major part of the problem.
I live in the state of Connecticut. We have a history of taking "the third choice" in local and statewide elections. The two most major cases include when the Republicans nominated John G. Rowland over Lowell P. Weicker as candidate for Governor of the state. Weicker ran independent and won the election.
Interestingly, Weicker was running for Governor because he lost his Senate seat to Joe Lieberman. Years later, Joe Lieberman failed to get the Democrat nomination for the seat he was holding. The Democrats instead nominated Ned Lamont, so Lieberman ran independent and won that election.
Both of your "third choice" examples are very much "career politicians". Especially as even when rejected by their political parties chose to try and stay in politics. When did Connecticut last elect someone who had never been a member of either these political parties?
At the end of the day, it's a variant of AB fallacy. "x is bad. (law/policy) y helps stops x. Therefore y is good." Doesn't factor in what we're sacrificing for y and whether that is good, and is often accompanied by two collieries: "people who disagree with y are bad" or "people who disagree with y support x".
It also tends to ignore how effective y would be at stopping x. The people advocating y may want it for entirely different reasons. Politics typically dosn't follow any logic, Is there something which could do the job far better than y? But is politically incorrect, including for such trivial reasons as the "wrong" people came up with it. That's before even considering if x actually is bad, even what x actually is. The current "debate" in the UK can't appear to make up it's mind if it is about "children" viewing "porn" or "child porn". Finally there's the issue of even if y actually does "stop" x (without much "collateral damage") what are the "unintended consequences" and what if they are far worst than x?
I want to make a commercial about censorship and it sould go like this: There is a debate between two people arguing about censorship. The first is arguing for censorship about saving children blah blah. When its time for the detractor, he says one word and gets his mic cable audibly removed. You see him talking, but no words.
Or how about whilst the first is midway through the second pulls out some wire cutters and snips the first's cable. Then maybe saying something like "Alas per $first, he never read Hamlet."
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A robust system would mean the hosting company wouldn't be more able to decypher encrypted damage than anyone else. Are they offering that?
About the only obvious way to do this in a secure way would be "client side". Such that all that is ever stored (and transmitted) would be cyphertext. (Without it being knowlable to Google or the "spooks" even what encryption algorithm was used.)
Polyester resin is kind of a staple product. In post-industrial societies, it's sold for recreation in craft stores. But in less developed places, it's needed for boat building and all sorts of fabrication. Before 3D printers with their costly supplies, we made molds and used resin for pennies.
I imagine they are chosing it over tar or pitch due to availability as much as any other factor.
Or more likely that it won't melt in hot weather. Since 2kg lumps dropping from the ceiling tend to be hazardous.
Keep trying: if I'm sticking this through a roof in Minnesota, it had better withstand -60F. Anti-freeze is good down to -35 - -40F.
You'd probably be better off if the water did freeze. Unless the water plus whatever can't undergo convection. Ice is a fairly poor conductor of heat.
Have you ever actually frozen a soda bottle? They survive just fine through many freeze-thaw cycles even while being exposed to UV. My mom used a wall of water-filled soda bottles as a way of regulating the temperature near some of her plants. They sat outside for years of winters before we got rid of them all.
In some places such bottles are reused. Since regular bottling lines both wash and pressure test every bottle it dosn't matter if you feed them old, new or mixed old&new bottles.
I once tried filling a PET shampoo bottle with water (same plastic as soda bottles) and then freezing it to expand the plastic. I'd then top it off again so the next time it would freeze-expand bigger. The bottle got to about 150% normal size before I just gave up.
Different grade of plastic, quite likely more plasticiser. Not designed to contain a fluid under pressure.
Ok, first up when you fertilise an egg you have no real control over what bits of genetic material comes from which parent in many cases. Sometimes it is predetermined by dominant / recessive genes but for other stuff there is a huge element of chance in there.
Part of meiosis involve swapping segments between chromosomes to ensure that gametes are highly genetically diverse.
Cloning completely removes this from the equation which is actually the whole point.
Cloning dosn't remove all randomness. In female mammals one X chromosome is typically disabled, but this occurs at a multi-cellular stage.
The manufacturer should have the ability to push an "unsafe firmware" notice to the device. If the device sees that flag, it should immediately flag that version of the firmware as potentially dangerous. If it is currently booted from the unsafe version and if it has another version installed that is not flagged, it should immediately find a safe spot to pull over, pull over, reboot from the other version of the firmware, and continue the trip.
How do you stop someone maliciously sending out such a message? A "signing" mechanism has the problem that the relevent keys must be easily available to a large number of "authorised people".
I remember when Sky (UK subscription tv) started up. You had to pay to get it but there were very few adverts and people really rated that. Over time it's gotten to the point where Sky seem to have more (probably just as much in truth) adverts as the free to watch channels.
There's also quite a lot of programming around the 42 minute mark. Which tends to be show in either a 60 minute slot with lots of ads (which is similar to the way things are done in the US) or a 45 minute slot without ads. Rules intended too restrict advertising tend have the effect of more "trailers" being played which are if anything more annoying than commerical adverts. The only times such channels appear to even consider 50 or 55 minute slots is between midnight and 6 am.
I've at least glanced at a lot of Web articles about most/least healthy foods. Pretty much every food has been attacked by one nutritionist or another, but one group that seems to be universally approved are berries. We're all supposed to eat our berries. Well, guess what. Berries have lots of sucrose.
Berries tend to be small fruits, with the exception of some tomatoes, so fairly easy to eat a small portion.
I was experiencing type II diabetic symptoms with increasing frequency. It was messing up my life.
Solution?
Low carb diet. Meats and saturated fats. I cut out breads entirely. If you keep your sugar intakes to about 70 grams per day or less, you're doing well. This meant cutting out most fruit. Even a potato converts into a lot of sugar.
The amount of dietary glucose T2 diabetics are able to handle varies greatly. For some 70g/day would be far too much. The only sure method is that of "eat to your meter".
Turns out, cholesterol and saturated fats are GOOD for you. We've been lied to, yet again, in this particular case, by agribusiness and big pharma.
Where things get really interesting is that hypocholesterolemia cause similar symptoms to diabetes. Most notably neuopathy.
Read, "Life Without Bread" for the basics. It could save your life and reverse your mom's condition. $10 for a book or years of misery? Not a hard choice.
If someone is taking insulin they need to both adjust their dosage and monitor their blood sugar levels when changing their diet in such a way. Probably even more so if they are T2 since a change of diet could affect insulin resistance making "carb counting" ineffective at working out the correct dosage. After a few weeks, all symptoms went away and I feel great today. Been at it for a couple of years now. I used to get super cold fingers in the cold seasons, and I had to cuddle around heaters to stay warm. Not anymore. Also my by body fat has balanced out nicely. I look better than I have in years.
Sugar is the most basic kind of energy source. It's extremely important to your body, but as with everything, there are limits on what intake is healthy.
On the other hand the human body has a quite limited ability to store glucose and no ability to store fructose or galactose. With none of these being "essential nutrients" either.
1. The body is a chemical machine. It needs good balance. When people screw with it too much beyond its tollerance, it's bad. We know this already. We hear "balanced diet" all the time. Trouble is, "balanced diets" are mostly a lie and because of human diversity, what is balanced for one person isn't balanced for another.
There is an older phrase "one man's meat is another man's poison". Often a "one size fits all" approach appears in government sponsored dietary advice. (Even such obvious daftness as telling diabetics to eat huge amounts of glucose.)
if they did a scientific study of banning "large sugar drinks" and noticed that somehow the cost and expense to society and freedom of having taxpayer funded policing of drink sizes somehow was worth it, then maybe i would agree. but thats not what they studied.
The size of the cup/glass is also utterly meaningless if you can have as many "refills" as you like (especially if that is via a dispenser in the customer area.)
The study was about Glucose; the predominant sugar in soda drinks is Fructose, at least in the U.S., and because it lends itself to plumbing-based manufacturing of junk food rather than requiring auger gears to move powdered sweetener around, it's gaining ground in other countries junk food as well.
HFCS is typically 55% fructose and 45% glucose. (Outside of the US it would probably be made from wheat or potatoes rather than maize.) HFCS wouldn't exist without the maize subsidies and sugar tariffs in the US.
By comparison sucrose is 53% fructose and 53% glucose. The extra 6% coming from the water used in the hydrolysis reaction to split sucrose into fructose and glucose.
The most important difference is that HFCS has a higher Glycemic Index (GI) than sucrose. Because it can be adsorbed without any digestion being needed.
Even though it contains less glucose more may end up in the general bloodstream since the liver preferentially converts fructose (and galactose) into fats. (Also liver cells need insulin to take up glucose. Which is not the case for either fructose or galactose.)
More ammo in the Bloomberg ammo depot to outlaw enormous sugary drinks and help lower the nation's health care costs by cutting down on seriously obese people.
The majority of most people's dietary glucose isn't from "sugar" however. This typically comes from plant amylopectin (followed by amylose).
Thus it would actually make more sense to outlaw bread, pasta, potatoes, breakfast cereal, etc. before even considering anything which contains glucose, maltose, sucrose or lactose.
There are already five forms of diabetes. Type 1 (early onset, no pancreatic function, incurable); Type 1.5 (Late onset, no pancreatic function, incurable); Pre Type 2 Diabetes (insulin resistance building, possibly curable); Type 2 (late onset, insulin resistance, some pancreatic function, incurable); and Gestational Diabetes (hormonal imbalance create insulin resistance, temporary).
Actually you have three groups.
Auto-immune: T1 and T1.5 (LADA).
Insulin resistant: Pre-Diabetes, T2 and Gestational Diabetes.
Mitochondial malfunction: Very misleadingly called Mature Onset Diabetes of the Young (MODY). N.B. it is possible for young people, especially women with PCOS, to have insulin resistance diabetes.
Only insulin resistant diabetes can be reversed (cured). Only in some cases, the degree & length of time of the insulin resistance along with injury to beta cells and liver due to glucotoxicity being possible factors here.
Putting a strip chart recording ammeter in line on hundreds of pc models we learned that they never get close to drawing what the power supply was ratrd for. We would monitor the mains cord and load the nastiest work load we could find. The worst power draw happens the instant you turn it on, while its spinning up the drive and loading the os.
Did you test any with SSDs?
As long as the population can be approximately 50/50 split over two parties (that both are attached to the puppeteer's strings) and political party fighting and mudslinging can be kept to a maximum over issues the Lesters don't care about, the populace will contentedly remain asleep and feel that they still have some actual power through the ballot box.
The most important thing would be to find out which issues the political parties tend to agree on. Since those would actually be the important issues...
Have a recent BMW? There is a known vulnerability where you can copy an actual key inside the car, using the data in the car's computer and the car's own transponder. BMW has not fixed this and won't fix it. The vulnerability is that BMW relied on being the only source of blank, programmable keys and having all the programming equipment in house.
Note that "in house" actually ment "at every BMW dealership" rather than "only at BMW HQ in Munich". They may well have not made any of the parts of the system themselves.
Once someone reversed the key system (the car itself contains unprotected, unencrypted key strings), they found out what electronics to put in the key and made blank keys and software to program them using the keys found in the car's computer. This is a massive problem that was out for probably at least a year before there was enough public attention to the enormous theft of BMWs with that system. I think that the number of BMWs stolen had quadrupled in that period. Right now, since BMW won't fix it, getting a BMW that suffers from this vulnerability is prohibitively expensive to insure, making their second hand value very low.
It isn't uncommon for car makers to refuse to fix faults unless force to by a regulator. Since this fault does not affect safety it may well be outside the remit of any regulator in Europe.
Right now, there's no indication that VW can and will fix this problem once it gets out.
It may already be "out" so far as car thieves are concerned. Wonder how many parts suppliers VW and BMW have in common.
And they call that a democracy, once, every 4 years, I have a choice between an evil one and a more evil one.
Maybe that's why in Classical Athens (where the concept of "democracy" was invented) they used "legislative juries" rather than elected representatives. The US Government very much modelled on that of Imperial Rome.
The people that wrongly declare that there were only two choice are a major part of the problem. Thats you, a major part of the problem.
I live in the state of Connecticut. We have a history of taking "the third choice" in local and statewide elections. The two most major cases include when the Republicans nominated John G. Rowland over Lowell P. Weicker as candidate for Governor of the state. Weicker ran independent and won the election.
Interestingly, Weicker was running for Governor because he lost his Senate seat to Joe Lieberman. Years later, Joe Lieberman failed to get the Democrat nomination for the seat he was holding. The Democrats instead nominated Ned Lamont, so Lieberman ran independent and won that election.
Both of your "third choice" examples are very much "career politicians". Especially as even when rejected by their political parties chose to try and stay in politics. When did Connecticut last elect someone who had never been a member of either these political parties?
And in the future years it will also include sites critical of the government, large corporations, etc.
Only if you have taken a very large dose of the potion described in the short story "The New Accelerator", by a certain Mr Wells.
I have children, and IMNSHO David Cameron is a technologically challenged idiot.
:)
Personally I'd have a hard time naming an MP (or wannabe MP) who could be called anything else
At the end of the day, it's a variant of AB fallacy. "x is bad. (law/policy) y helps stops x. Therefore y is good." Doesn't factor in what we're sacrificing for y and whether that is good, and is often accompanied by two collieries: "people who disagree with y are bad" or "people who disagree with y support x".
It also tends to ignore how effective y would be at stopping x. The people advocating y may want it for entirely different reasons. Politics typically dosn't follow any logic,
Is there something which could do the job far better than y? But is politically incorrect, including for such trivial reasons as the "wrong" people came up with it.
That's before even considering if x actually is bad, even what x actually is. The current "debate" in the UK can't appear to make up it's mind if it is about "children" viewing "porn" or "child porn".
Finally there's the issue of even if y actually does "stop" x (without much "collateral damage") what are the "unintended consequences" and what if they are far worst than x?
I want sites blocked telling people actively to be violent.
Does that include *.mod.uk? How about anywhere which allows user comments, including slashdot?
I want to make a commercial about censorship and it sould go like this: There is a debate between two people arguing about censorship. The first is arguing for censorship about saving children blah blah. When its time for the detractor, he says one word and gets his mic cable audibly removed. You see him talking, but no words.
Or how about whilst the first is midway through the second pulls out some wire cutters and snips the first's cable.
Then maybe saying something like "Alas per $first, he never read Hamlet."