Where in Europe? The open market does not mean that everything is priced the same everywhere. At least in the Netherlands, I don't think you can get 70 Mbit/s for 16 EUR/mo. The lowest tier is about 20 EUR for 10 Mbps ADSL including phone or 30 Mbps without.
I did once (July) install an app with that name, but there are many with the same name on the Play store. I uninstalled it the next day because it was crap. Screenshots look familiar, but I'm not sure.
At least I don't see any suspicious files with setuid permissions, but then:/system/xbin/su is also mode rwx. I guess I'll reflash my ROM (CM13) this weekend, just to be sure...
The word "toxin" is misued all the time.
Toxin = toxic compound produced by living organism. Zika toxin would be something synthesized by the Zika virus or by Zika-infected cells, which makes the story title rather nonsensical.
"not only do bats (and purple martins) not eat that many mosquitoes, they also eat other insects that would themselves eat mosquitoes, such as dragonflies."
Dragonflies hunt by sight, during daytime. Bats and mosquitoes are active at dusk and night, so this doesn't sound very likely as far as bats are concerned.
The use of hygroscopic products to speed up drying is actually based on a misconception, or at least, not as effective as you might think.
The rate of evaporation is proportional to the product D*(p_vp-p_env), where D is the diffusion coefficient of the vapor molecules in air, p_vp the vapor pressure (partial pressure of saturated vapor), and p_env the partial pressure of vapor in the environment.
A desiccant will lower p_env to zero, so it will help a bit; for example, the p difference is (2.4-1.2) kPa at 20 C, 50% relative humidity, increasing to (2.4-0) with a desiccant, a factor 2 increase. However, putting it in a warm place will increase both D (a bit) and p_vp (a lot). Heating it to 50 C in the same environment will increase the p difference to (12.3-1.2), a factor 9 increase. Additionally, D will increase by a factor 1.2. A phone that is switched off should be able to handle such temperatures, so putting it on top of the cable modem is cheaper and more effective.
Even better would be to dry it in vacuum; that will increase the D parameter tremendously. But most people don't have that at home, although I suppose that some creativity with a wine preserver pump might get you somewhere.
"CyanogenMod (...) uses the "old fashioned way". No TrustZone, no fancy footwork with keys... just a relatively simple prompt for the passphrase at the phone startup so/data can be mounted and used."
I'm using CM13 (Android 6/Marshmallow), which uses FDE, yet can boot without password prompt, just like stock Android 6. It will present the lock screen though. Leaving aside the security of a booted and connected phone with only the lock screen as a protection, the only way to do this seems to be to use some kind of trusted execution environment. Otherwise, you could pull the entire encrypted data partition over USB from the (obviously non-stock) boot loader and have all the necessary data to decrypt it offline.
The number 461 does not occur anywhere on that wikipedia page and it's the first time I hear it. I used to play the trumpet. That was before you had digital tuners but I don't recall that there was any problem to get it in tune with a standard piano. The closest statement is:
""high pitch" was used for the older tuning of A = 452.4 Hz at 60 ÂF. Although... low pitch, provincial [english] orchestras continued using the high pitch until at least the 1920s, and most brass bands were still using the high pitch in the mid-1960s."
"T-Mobile does, after all, not only know where you live, but where you ARE. (Even if you disable location services or deny access to the TMO app, they can still place you with a couple hundred meters via cell tower triangulation.)"
Even though the T-mobile organization as a whole may have this information, I would expect that it is not so easy to transfer this information in real time from where it is normally kept to the marketing department that is in charge of these promotions. The reasons would be technical, legal, and security-related. It is highly sensitive data; imagine the uproar if the customer database is leaked including detailed location logs after a breach.
"The choices are smart devices that know not to draw higher current (sometimes) or maintaining 51% of the load as resistive."
Thank you, my universal 100-240 V AC laptop adapter won't work anymore in the US and your US one will go up in smoke and flames in Europe. Or your tv will black out when the freezer/airco switches on...
For whomever might be reading this (or who modded me down): CMYK subpixels arranged side by side are just as useless, since you cannot achieve anything resembling black. C, M, Y reflect about 2/3rds of the light, so you can't get anything darker than 50% gray.
Escape rooms typically don't publish pictures, so I only have one data point from personal experience. The capital investment is negligible; most of the costs were likely for staffing and rent. The room was filled with stuff from thrift stores and walls were made of plasternoard. The only new stuff was the security camera, a tv screen, a keypad lock and an emergency button.
"In order to be heard in court, you actually have to have evidence that not only were YOU personally and directly affected, BUT a Real material financial loss or other damage resulted."
Unless you are law enforcement (prosecutor, FCC, etc.). The question is: why doesn't the FCC take action against stingrays?
Colored subpixels arranged side by side are not very useful for a reflective display. Suppose you use R, G, and B subpixels that can vary shades between black and R, G, or B. Then you can't get any brighter than a 33% reflective gray. Maybe you misremember how it worked?
"I let a domain lapse a few years ago and someone else parked it for a year. I've had it back for several years with a permissive robots.txt but Wayback still says the site is excluded."
Unless they changed the rules in the past two years, that is not their normal policy. Robots.txt is only supposed to affect the availability as long as robots.txt is up. It would suck if a temporary syntax error in robots.txt would purge a site forever. There is a case of a dispute where one party refused to remove robots.txt in order to prevent the counterparty from gathering incriminating evidence. The judge had to force removal of robots.txt.
Archive.org has a special process for permanent purging of a site, but I doubt that a domain squatter would have bothered. If you had an obscure website, chances are that it was never archived to start with.
It's quadratic with height for a solid mountain. If you use a porous construction (steel beams with a roof), it's probably exponential, but with a tiny prefactor. I wouldn't know which is more expensive; both are astronomical in cost.
"4000 Euros in incentives won't magically make a power outlet appear on the street where you park your car over night."
Meanwhile, at your Western neighbors (Netherlands), charging poles are popping up all over the cities. Buy an electric car and in many places they will put a charging pole for two cars, with dedicated charging-only parking space next to it, right in your street. They pay for themselves, partially, because the kWh price is a bit higher than what you'd pay at home (I think 0.05 EUR on top of 0.22 EUR/kWh). Probably, the cities are subsidizing them as well, because getting EVs to take off will improve the air quality.
"Using a spreadsheet may be okay if you are a one person business or a Mom & Pop shop."
I did the accounting for a club with about 25 members for a couple of years. In a spreadsheet. Every year when I needed to close the books, I found myself sitting behind the screen until 3am because the numbers were not consistent, due to spreadsheet errors (inserted row that messed up cell ranges in formulas) and all the special cases of bills that were paid in a different year than the invoice date.
I shudder if I think about using a spreadsheet for a serious one-person business with more than 1000 transactions per year.
"What makes you think that proprietary software gives you access to something nobody else does?"
At the engineering company where I work, there are on the order of 10^3 engineers that need to do CAD design on different parts of the same product, recursively, in parallel, with tight version control, and multiple people doing sign-offs before the part goes in production. By 'recursively', I mean that one person is doing the layout of a big assembly that includes smaller components that are still being designed, each of which includes even smaller components that are still not final.
I highly doubt that there are FOSS alternatives that can handle that kind of workflow without extreme discipline of the users.
Fortunately, I don't do CAD. I only have to deal with the document management system that's part of it. (Rather crappy, I must say). I do my calculations exclusively in FOSS. Most of my colleagues use Matlab for some reason. (I believe that the real cause is that technical universities teach it because the educational licences are nearly free.)
Moreover, I used Towelroot to root an Android 4.4.4 phone, even though TFS talks about 4.3 and before. Or had the internals of the Towelroot app been changed a lot between 4.3 and 4.4? I do remember that the phone (or Google) warned me that the APK for Towelroot was possibly malicious; I had to confirm installation one more time.
And yes,.format() is more flexible, but it requires much more typing for my typical case of printing 5-10 float values on a line and I wouldn't say that the end result looks more clear either.
None of the error messages on my 300-line script was about the issues that you mention, except maybe that xrange() doesn't exist anymore because range() itself is an iterator in Py3. It was mostly about stuff that changed names or moved to different modules. I suppose that migrating is easier if you use a migration tool, but this run-py2-code-on-py3 incident was not really planned...
"Now that Python 3 has proven itself, it's seeing widespread adoption within the Python community. It's what almost everyone is using for new code."
Maybe I should look into Python 3 again, then. A few years ago, I was rather turned of by the deprecation of the % interpolation operator on strings, since 75% of what I do with Python involves number crunching and then writing those numbers in ascii as "%.4g\t%.4g\t%.4g\n" strings. The other 25% involves string processing of ascii with an occasional utf8 or latin1 character. All the obligatory encoding and decoding drove me crazy.
Just a week ago, I wrote a small (300 lines) Python/scipy program for a (windows-using, non-python-using) coworker and told him to install PythonWin to run it. Big mistake: he installed 3.4 while I developed for 2.7 and it was error messages all over the place. At least the incompatibility is so gross that you notice it immediately if you use the wrong version. I imagine that there will be similar, though more subtle, issues if I use 3.4 and want it to run with someone who uses 3.2 in some LTS linux distro. Or the other way around. I guess that's the price of using a llanguage that is under active development.
"This is something Unix/Linux gets backward in my opinion: the default should be confirmation mode, not the other way around."
1. All Ubuntu versions and derivatives (and I think Centos/RHEL as well) alias rm to "rm -i" out of the box. Drives me crazy; with every install I have to hunt down whether those aliases were defined in.profile,.bash_profile,.bashrc,/etc/profile,/etc/bashrc, or somewhere in/etc/bash/*.
2. Command-line tools that ask for confirmation suck for scripting. Especially if those prompts only occur under specific conditions (such as confirm overwrite).
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I doubt that there will be much bacterial growth in an electrolysis vessel...
Where in Europe? The open market does not mean that everything is priced the same everywhere. At least in the Netherlands, I don't think you can get 70 Mbit/s for 16 EUR/mo. The lowest tier is about 20 EUR for 10 Mbps ADSL including phone or 30 Mbps without.
I did once (July) install an app with that name, but there are many with the same name on the Play store. I uninstalled it the next day because it was crap. Screenshots look familiar, but I'm not sure.
At least I don't see any suspicious files with setuid permissions, but then: /system/xbin/su is also mode rwx. I guess I'll reflash my ROM (CM13) this weekend, just to be sure...
The word "toxin" is misued all the time. Toxin = toxic compound produced by living organism. Zika toxin would be something synthesized by the Zika virus or by Zika-infected cells, which makes the story title rather nonsensical.
"the usual human reaction to the smell of Cadaverine (pentamethylenediamine) and Putrescine (tetramethylenediamine),"
Quoting the wiki:
"Basic amines such as putrescine, spermine, spermidine and cadaverine are responsible for the smell and flavor of semen."
What human reaction, you said?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
What is "appropriate temperature" for a finger? My SO regularly manages to get her hands (and feet) below ambient temperature...
"not only do bats (and purple martins) not eat that many mosquitoes, they also eat other insects that would themselves eat mosquitoes, such as dragonflies."
Dragonflies hunt by sight, during daytime. Bats and mosquitoes are active at dusk and night, so this doesn't sound very likely as far as bats are concerned.
The use of hygroscopic products to speed up drying is actually based on a misconception, or at least, not as effective as you might think.
The rate of evaporation is proportional to the product D*(p_vp-p_env), where D is the diffusion coefficient of the vapor molecules in air, p_vp the vapor pressure (partial pressure of saturated vapor), and p_env the partial pressure of vapor in the environment.
A desiccant will lower p_env to zero, so it will help a bit; for example, the p difference is (2.4-1.2) kPa at 20 C, 50% relative humidity, increasing to (2.4-0) with a desiccant, a factor 2 increase. However, putting it in a warm place will increase both D (a bit) and p_vp (a lot). Heating it to 50 C in the same environment will increase the p difference to (12.3-1.2), a factor 9 increase. Additionally, D will increase by a factor 1.2. A phone that is switched off should be able to handle such temperatures, so putting it on top of the cable modem is cheaper and more effective.
Even better would be to dry it in vacuum; that will increase the D parameter tremendously. But most people don't have that at home, although I suppose that some creativity with a wine preserver pump might get you somewhere.
"CyanogenMod (...) uses the "old fashioned way". No TrustZone, no fancy footwork with keys... just a relatively simple prompt for the passphrase at the phone startup so /data can be mounted and used."
I'm using CM13 (Android 6/Marshmallow), which uses FDE, yet can boot without password prompt, just like stock Android 6. It will present the lock screen though. Leaving aside the security of a booted and connected phone with only the lock screen as a protection, the only way to do this seems to be to use some kind of trusted execution environment. Otherwise, you could pull the entire encrypted data partition over USB from the (obviously non-stock) boot loader and have all the necessary data to decrypt it offline.
"military and brass music uses 461 Hz. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... "
The number 461 does not occur anywhere on that wikipedia page and it's the first time I hear it. I used to play the trumpet. That was before you had digital tuners but I don't recall that there was any problem to get it in tune with a standard piano. The closest statement is:
""high pitch" was used for the older tuning of A = 452.4 Hz at 60 ÂF. Although ... low pitch, provincial [english] orchestras continued using the high pitch until at least the 1920s, and most brass bands were still using the high pitch in the mid-1960s."
"T-Mobile does, after all, not only know where you live, but where you ARE. (Even if you disable location services or deny access to the TMO app, they can still place you with a couple hundred meters via cell tower triangulation.)"
Even though the T-mobile organization as a whole may have this information, I would expect that it is not so easy to transfer this information in real time from where it is normally kept to the marketing department that is in charge of these promotions. The reasons would be technical, legal, and security-related. It is highly sensitive data; imagine the uproar if the customer database is leaked including detailed location logs after a breach.
"The choices are smart devices that know not to draw higher current (sometimes) or maintaining 51% of the load as resistive."
Thank you, my universal 100-240 V AC laptop adapter won't work anymore in the US and your US one will go up in smoke and flames in Europe. Or your tv will black out when the freezer/airco switches on...
For whomever might be reading this (or who modded me down): CMYK subpixels arranged side by side are just as useless, since you cannot achieve anything resembling black. C, M, Y reflect about 2/3rds of the light, so you can't get anything darker than 50% gray.
Escape rooms typically don't publish pictures, so I only have one data point from personal experience. The capital investment is negligible; most of the costs were likely for staffing and rent. The room was filled with stuff from thrift stores and walls were made of plasternoard. The only new stuff was the security camera, a tv screen, a keypad lock and an emergency button.
"In order to be heard in court, you actually have to have evidence that not only were YOU personally and directly affected, BUT a Real material financial loss or other damage resulted."
Unless you are law enforcement (prosecutor, FCC, etc.). The question is: why doesn't the FCC take action against stingrays?
Colored subpixels arranged side by side are not very useful for a reflective display. Suppose you use R, G, and B subpixels that can vary shades between black and R, G, or B. Then you can't get any brighter than a 33% reflective gray. Maybe you misremember how it worked?
"I let a domain lapse a few years ago and someone else parked it for a year. I've had it back for several years with a permissive robots.txt but Wayback still says the site is excluded."
Unless they changed the rules in the past two years, that is not their normal policy. Robots.txt is only supposed to affect the availability as long as robots.txt is up. It would suck if a temporary syntax error in robots.txt would purge a site forever. There is a case of a dispute where one party refused to remove robots.txt in order to prevent the counterparty from gathering incriminating evidence. The judge had to force removal of robots.txt.
Archive.org has a special process for permanent purging of a site, but I doubt that a domain squatter would have bothered. If you had an obscure website, chances are that it was never archived to start with.
It's quadratic with height for a solid mountain. If you use a porous construction (steel beams with a roof), it's probably exponential, but with a tiny prefactor. I wouldn't know which is more expensive; both are astronomical in cost.
"4000 Euros in incentives won't magically make a power outlet appear on the street where you park your car over night."
Meanwhile, at your Western neighbors (Netherlands), charging poles are popping up all over the cities. Buy an electric car and in many places they will put a charging pole for two cars, with dedicated charging-only parking space next to it, right in your street. They pay for themselves, partially, because the kWh price is a bit higher than what you'd pay at home (I think 0.05 EUR on top of 0.22 EUR/kWh). Probably, the cities are subsidizing them as well, because getting EVs to take off will improve the air quality.
"Using a spreadsheet may be okay if you are a one person business or a Mom & Pop shop."
I did the accounting for a club with about 25 members for a couple of years. In a spreadsheet. Every year when I needed to close the books, I found myself sitting behind the screen until 3am because the numbers were not consistent, due to spreadsheet errors (inserted row that messed up cell ranges in formulas) and all the special cases of bills that were paid in a different year than the invoice date.
I shudder if I think about using a spreadsheet for a serious one-person business with more than 1000 transactions per year.
"What makes you think that proprietary software gives you access to something nobody else does?"
At the engineering company where I work, there are on the order of 10^3 engineers that need to do CAD design on different parts of the same product, recursively, in parallel, with tight version control, and multiple people doing sign-offs before the part goes in production. By 'recursively', I mean that one person is doing the layout of a big assembly that includes smaller components that are still being designed, each of which includes even smaller components that are still not final.
I highly doubt that there are FOSS alternatives that can handle that kind of workflow without extreme discipline of the users.
Fortunately, I don't do CAD. I only have to deal with the document management system that's part of it. (Rather crappy, I must say). I do my calculations exclusively in FOSS. Most of my colleagues use Matlab for some reason. (I believe that the real cause is that technical universities teach it because the educational licences are nearly free.)
Moreover, I used Towelroot to root an Android 4.4.4 phone, even though TFS talks about 4.3 and before. Or had the internals of the Towelroot app been changed a lot between 4.3 and 4.4? I do remember that the phone (or Google) warned me that the APK for Towelroot was possibly malicious; I had to confirm installation one more time.
I just read that the string % operator is no longer deprecated or scheduled for removal, as of Python 3.3:
http://stackoverflow.com/quest...
And yes, .format() is more flexible, but it requires much more typing for my typical case of printing 5-10 float values on a line and I wouldn't say that the end result looks more clear either.
None of the error messages on my 300-line script was about the issues that you mention, except maybe that xrange() doesn't exist anymore because range() itself is an iterator in Py3. It was mostly about stuff that changed names or moved to different modules. I suppose that migrating is easier if you use a migration tool, but this run-py2-code-on-py3 incident was not really planned...
"Now that Python 3 has proven itself, it's seeing widespread adoption within the Python community. It's what almost everyone is using for new code."
Maybe I should look into Python 3 again, then. A few years ago, I was rather turned of by the deprecation of the % interpolation operator on strings, since 75% of what I do with Python involves number crunching and then writing those numbers in ascii as "%.4g\t%.4g\t%.4g\n" strings. The other 25% involves string processing of ascii with an occasional utf8 or latin1 character. All the obligatory encoding and decoding drove me crazy.
Just a week ago, I wrote a small (300 lines) Python/scipy program for a (windows-using, non-python-using) coworker and told him to install PythonWin to run it. Big mistake: he installed 3.4 while I developed for 2.7 and it was error messages all over the place. At least the incompatibility is so gross that you notice it immediately if you use the wrong version. I imagine that there will be similar, though more subtle, issues if I use 3.4 and want it to run with someone who uses 3.2 in some LTS linux distro. Or the other way around. I guess that's the price of using a llanguage that is under active development.
"This is something Unix/Linux gets backward in my opinion: the default should be confirmation mode, not the other way around."
1. All Ubuntu versions and derivatives (and I think Centos/RHEL as well) alias rm to "rm -i" out of the box. Drives me crazy; with every install I have to hunt down whether those aliases were defined in .profile, .bash_profile, .bashrc, /etc/profile, /etc/bashrc, or somewhere in /etc/bash/*.
2. Command-line tools that ask for confirmation suck for scripting. Especially if those prompts only occur under specific conditions (such as confirm overwrite).