You realize that this is actually a valid technique that has been used for many years, right? It does work if done properly because the female body does give signs when fertile. The problem is that it should be done with a lot of coaching from someone who knows what they are doing, which tends to be a failure of most apps.
Can you get pregnant if you have sex DURING YOUR PERIOD? Yes! Surprise! Semen stays on the job for days after the sex occurred. Those hard-working little guys don't give up right away.
Can I ovulate without having a period? Sure! Now figure out how to time ovulation when she's skipping periods.
Don't women ovulate on the 14th day after the period starts? Yes! And also pretty much anytime between the 11th and 21st days. Good luck with timing that! And keep in mind that the semen lasts for days, so we're really talking about the 5th-22nd day being a viable target.
Does the likelihood of conception failure increase with the income of the male partner? Yes! and it's exponential! (OK, I made that one up)
The paper system is far to easy to control and rig.
A better solution is to use computers in a way that provides a reasonable amount of certainty.
The way to do this would be via something like blockchain and public keys. Then make the entire voting record public after each election, but in it's encrypted form.
Anyone could check that their vote wasn't tampered with, and the results would still be secret. There would be far less failure to accept the result of an election if people had more certainty that the outcome wasn't tampered with.
My vote and your vote is not going to be tampered with. That's not how election interference is done. Modern day tampering is done through votes cast by people who do not exist, or cast in the name of people who did not vote, or by people who should not vote.
I can see how a blockchain could help maintain the integrity of vote talleys being transmitted from the polling places to the central location. I doubt it's necessary, though. The existing method in my state (probably most states) of ensuring that there's no tampering between polling places, counting places is pretty air-tight, IMHO. Basically what happens is each individual polling place makes their counts and uploads their counts to a central server. This process is observed by the pollworkers of the political parties participating in the election. Those counts are then posted publically by the state so anyone can do the arithmetic, and each polling place and political party can verify that the votes they counted match the state's total. The difference between having humans verify counts and computers is that humans are far more paranoid and suspicious than computers.
This would also allow voting from home via the Internet, so polling places and the associated problems with them would disappear.
After this... Who cares about the mechanics such as how the vote is tallied. That would be something that changes over time based on other factors and cultural drives.
Voting from home requires that you can guarantee the integrity of everyone's home computer including those who vote, and especially those who did not intend to vote, as in that case a bot could cast for vote in the name of that person from the home computer.
Polling places are necessary. It's the only way to ensure secret ballots. The purpose of public voting places is to allow secret ballots and to prevent in-person coercion, and voting by impaired persons. With voting from home, or other such non-regulated places, family members, workers, union members, cults, and so on can be coerced because the person doing the coercion can view the ballot being cast. A real-world example is that of organizations going into nursing/retirement homes and pseudo-assisting with absentee ballots. However, some states are passing laws to prevent that particular abuse by requiring the use of pollworkers to assist with absentee voting from institutions.
Turns out what I thought was my PC on top of me showing a half-dressed woman was actually my wife. She saw a roach running around, and it's the male's duty to dispatch any such creatures found in the house... now.
Smartphones and computers were designed in different eras, and they don't really work well together, forcing us to split our time between them.
I feel so bad when I'm awakened in the middle of the night, and there's my PC sitting on my chest, demanding a fair share of the time that I had given to my phone.
I worked through similar math and also got to a power level of 1.4 GW.
Remember, however, that they're ultimately calculating the total energy consumption, not energy per unit time (as measured by watts). At the yearly level, 1.4 GW * 24 hours / day * 365 days / year ~ 12 TWh / year -- exactly what De Vries says is a lower bound. So at a first glance, the figures check out to me.
Ga Power's plant Vogtle presently has two 1.2 gigawatt nuclear reactors, so all of bitcoin mining could be handled by that one plant. Extra points if you know why Alvin Vogtle was more cool than Steve McQueen.
I doubt the article is about a real company, but let's pretend it is.
So you have these two guys that don't know anything but Windows desktop support, and now you want to train them to be admins for Linux servers? I call bullshit. What is going on here is that you have Windows server and domain admins that don't want to learn Linux, so they're trying to escape that duty by dumping it on the Desktop guys.
You claim to be a medium size company. Are these two guys clearing their calls and keeping busy for 40+ hours a week or are they sitting on their butts all day? You did not say, but If they're putting in over 40, then adding Linux server support to their jobs means you're being a jerk. The correct thing to do is hire an another admin to manage the servers, or more likely, you need to make your server admins do their jobs.
The two desktop guys do indeed need to be able to do OSX desktop support, and probably smartphone email integration. You'll have to buy them each a OSX box and a book to learn, practice and troubleshoot.
Server admin job is a different job than desktop support (except in small business). It is a different mindset for the most part, and it's not a good idea to mix the roles.
I'm late to this party and I hope my question isn't redundant. (I'm asking for a friend)
What happens when you ARE home during the delivery? You might be relaxing in front of the big screen enjoying some righteous pron and getting your wrist exercise for the day. You might be doing your cosplay version of Princess Leia. You might be entertaining the stud next door through the back door. Or you might just be lying in your upchuck in a drunken stupor on the floor.
Not too worried about a delivery when I'm *not* home.
Every time I've had a party, there were party crashers because I had great parties and people could see what was happening. The trailer park people down the street had parties that few would go to, unless tied up or roofied, because people could see what was happening. The answer to your "what would happen" question is in there.
My brain blinks when I think of something I need to do in another room and after I walk there, it blinks to something else and I forget the reason I went there. #oldageblinkingsucks
I'm sorry, I didn't mean to imply that I could, or was able to, clarify. I was only pointing out that no one had asked me to. Before now, that is. If I could now edit my previous post, I would change "no one" to "only one".
"crypto-nazis"? I've always just called them "cryptos"
hmmph. I just fought a battle with auto- correct trying to change "cryptos" to "cryptosporidium". That's stupid, I almost never say "cryptosporidium" I just say" crypto" and no one has ever asked me to clarify.
And if you woke up too early, there was nothing on. Not that there were no interesting programmes, there was literally no show available to watch; just test patterns or static.
You could use a clothespin to attach a playing card to the fender support on your bicycle so that it would be hit by the spokes when you were rolling. It made a sound somewhat like a small motor. You could attach 8 cards to convince yourself you had a 8 cylinder engine.
Another: we all knew what was meant by the flathead some of us had in our car, and didn't confuse that with our haircuts.
And if you woke up too early, there was nothing on. Not that there were no interesting programmes, there was literally no show available to watch; just test patterns or static.
You are dead. All humans at dead. You think you're remembering this crap because we're doing brain dumps from the parts we found. We're trying to figure out what went wrong with the design.
Have you ever seen the mercury or sodium lights that constantly turn on and off? It takes a while for them to cycle and they gradually brighten on and off. I'm told that bird poop is bad for the now-it's-dark sensor.
I've now seen two large-array LED street lights near where I live that have failed the same way. They're cycling about once every 3 seconds of full off and then to full on for a fraction of a second. It's like looking at a flash bulb going off every three seconds - total darkness, FLASH, total darkness. I was stuck in traffic sitting under one doing this, and I hope it doesn't become common because people will start shooting at these.
77 hours at a factory is different than 77 hours at a desk. There might even be quite a bit of down time (waiting for code to compile, test results to come back, etc.). I know some people play games in that time.
Good point - those hours are not the same at all. Many assembly line jobs are bad for the health in ways that are much worse than sitting all day is bad for you.
The article did not say they were working 7-day weeks, nor was it every day, but if it were so, that's only a 77 hour week. Many of us here on Slashdot have worked projects that called for putting in those kind of hours for months, and I'll bet some are working like that right now. The difference us and the Foxconn kids? They get paid for the overtime and we don't.
When categorize Nazi party as being left or right, rather than compare it to the communists, you could just as well compare the Nazis to the Weimar republic. You can't get consistent answers if you do that.
Personally, I think that labeling parties right/left (or even worse policies as right/left) engenders sloppy thinking and is often, if not usually, a tool for deceptive speech. In the case of labeling 20th century fascist movements as being right/left, you might as well try to categorize apples, grapes, and watermelons into right/left fruits. They are their own kind of thing and such simple binary labeling only serve to obscure what they are, and to obscure the nature of whatever they are being compared to.
So a launch each year would add 10 cents to the price of each kWh.
So you are proposing to double the price of electricity to do something that has questionable benefit. Nuclear plants are having problems being competitive now, how could they ever hope to compete if their price doubled? Even the current "plan" of on-site dry-cask storage of used fuel assemblies has a much lower probability of causing problems than trying to launch them into space. We have a large amount of uninhabited land in the US, we just need to suck it up and create a long-term repository (or bypass Harry Reid and use Yucca Mountain). It will be much cheaper and much safer than trying to launch tons of hot material on a spacecraft with no flights (hence no safety record).
Heh, I'm not proposing anything. The poster above me made the blast it into space suggestion, and I wondered what it would cost with existing technology. So, I did the math first and then made my post without calling the OP any names. And yeah, I know that's not the Internet way, but I was in a hurry to go someplace. I'm ready now, though: Anyone who wants to send nuclear waste into space is a doo-doo head.
Turn it into glassy lumps and simply throw it off planet with a linear accelerator. Take some gravitational influences into account and you could even aim it at the sun. The sun wouldn't notice the whole planet falling into and we're just talking about a few thousand tons of radioactive waste. (wait until we hear the arguments about polluting the sun.:-)
We would only need to send the high level waste into space. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... "A typical large 1000 MWe nuclear reactor produces 25–30 tons of spent fuel per year.[4] If the fuel were reprocessed and vitrified, the waste volume would be only about three cubic meters per year, but the decay heat would be almost the same."
Cost of a launch: http://www.spacex.com/about/ca... So to put the high-level waste into a high orbit, it looks like each 1 GW reactor would need one Falcon Heavy, which is about $90,000,000.
Electricity is priced by the kWh. A 1.GW plant produces a million kWh each hour, or about 8,760,000 kWh a year. So a launch each year would add 10 cents to the price of each kWh. You can adjust for the average uptime being more like 90% for modern plants.
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You realize that this is actually a valid technique that has been used for many years, right? It does work if done properly because the female body does give signs when fertile. The problem is that it should be done with a lot of coaching from someone who knows what they are doing, which tends to be a failure of most apps.
Here's a web site for people who are hoping to have a baby.
http://americanpregnancy.org/g...
Can you get pregnant if you have sex DURING YOUR PERIOD?
Yes! Surprise! Semen stays on the job for days after the sex occurred. Those hard-working little guys don't give up right away.
Can I ovulate without having a period?
Sure! Now figure out how to time ovulation when she's skipping periods.
Don't women ovulate on the 14th day after the period starts?
Yes! And also pretty much anytime between the 11th and 21st days.
Good luck with timing that!
And keep in mind that the semen lasts for days, so we're really talking about the 5th-22nd day being a viable target.
Does the likelihood of conception failure increase with the income of the male partner?
Yes! and it's exponential! (OK, I made that one up)
SELECT candidate AS victor FROM candidates ORDER BY bribe_amount DESC LIMIT 1;
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The paper system is far to easy to control and rig.
A better solution is to use computers in a way that provides a reasonable amount of certainty.
The way to do this would be via something like blockchain and public keys. Then make the entire voting record public after each election, but in it's encrypted form.
Anyone could check that their vote wasn't tampered with, and the results would still be secret. There would be far less failure to accept the result of an election if people had more certainty that the outcome wasn't tampered with.
My vote and your vote is not going to be tampered with. That's not how election interference is done.
Modern day tampering is done through votes cast by people who do not exist, or cast in the name of people who did not vote, or by people who should not vote.
I can see how a blockchain could help maintain the integrity of vote talleys being transmitted from the polling places to the central location.
I doubt it's necessary, though.
The existing method in my state (probably most states) of ensuring that there's no tampering between polling places, counting places is pretty air-tight, IMHO.
Basically what happens is each individual polling place makes their counts and uploads their counts to a central server. This process is observed by the pollworkers of the political parties participating in the election. Those counts are then posted publically by the state so anyone can do the arithmetic, and each polling place and political party can verify that the votes they counted match the state's total.
The difference between having humans verify counts and computers is that humans are far more paranoid and suspicious than computers.
This would also allow voting from home via the Internet, so polling places and the associated problems with them would disappear.
After this... Who cares about the mechanics such as how the vote is tallied. That would be something that changes over time based on other factors and cultural drives.
Voting from home requires that you can guarantee the integrity of everyone's home computer including those who vote, and especially those who did not intend to vote, as in that case a bot could cast for vote in the name of that person from the home computer.
Polling places are necessary. It's the only way to ensure secret ballots.
The purpose of public voting places is to allow secret ballots and to prevent in-person coercion, and voting by impaired persons. With voting from home, or other such non-regulated places, family members, workers, union members, cults, and so on can be coerced because the person doing the coercion can view the ballot being cast.
A real-world example is that of organizations going into nursing/retirement homes and pseudo-assisting with absentee ballots. However, some states are passing laws to prevent that particular abuse by requiring the use of pollworkers to assist with absentee voting from institutions.
Turns out what I thought was my PC on top of me showing a half-dressed woman was actually my wife. ... now.
She saw a roach running around, and it's the male's duty to dispatch any such creatures found in the house
Smartphones and computers were designed in different eras, and they don't really work well together, forcing us to split our time between them.
I feel so bad when I'm awakened in the middle of the night, and there's my PC sitting on my chest, demanding a fair share of the time that I had given to my phone.
https://support.microsoft.com/...
https://support.microsoft.com/...
https://support.microsoft.com/...
https://portal.msrc.microsoft....
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-...
https://www.powershellgallery....
I worked through similar math and also got to a power level of 1.4 GW.
Remember, however, that they're ultimately calculating the total energy consumption, not energy per unit time (as measured by watts). At the yearly level, 1.4 GW * 24 hours / day * 365 days / year ~ 12 TWh / year -- exactly what De Vries says is a lower bound. So at a first glance, the figures check out to me.
Ga Power's plant Vogtle presently has two 1.2 gigawatt nuclear reactors, so all of bitcoin mining could be handled by that one plant.
Extra points if you know why Alvin Vogtle was more cool than Steve McQueen.
... and also think of ...
I suppose that could be true, if one takes the doubtful stance that those guys (and gals) are washing their hands afterwards.
I doubt the article is about a real company, but let's pretend it is.
So you have these two guys that don't know anything but Windows desktop support, and now you want to train them to be admins for Linux servers?
I call bullshit. What is going on here is that you have Windows server and domain admins that don't want to learn Linux, so they're trying to escape that duty by dumping it on the Desktop guys.
You claim to be a medium size company. Are these two guys clearing their calls and keeping busy for 40+ hours a week or are they sitting on their butts all day? You did not say, but If they're putting in over 40, then adding Linux server support to their jobs means you're being a jerk. The correct thing to do is hire an another admin to manage the servers, or more likely, you need to make your server admins do their jobs.
The two desktop guys do indeed need to be able to do OSX desktop support, and probably smartphone email integration. You'll have to buy them each a OSX box and a book to learn, practice and troubleshoot.
Server admin job is a different job than desktop support (except in small business). It is a different mindset for the most part, and it's not a good idea to mix the roles.
I'm late to this party and I hope my question isn't redundant. (I'm asking for a friend)
What happens when you ARE home during the delivery? You might be relaxing in front of the big screen enjoying some righteous pron and getting your wrist exercise for the day. You might be doing your cosplay version of Princess Leia. You might be entertaining the stud next door through the back door. Or you might just be lying in your upchuck in a drunken stupor on the floor.
Not too worried about a delivery when I'm *not* home.
Every time I've had a party, there were party crashers because I had great parties and people could see what was happening.
The trailer park people down the street had parties that few would go to, unless tied up or roofied, because people could see what was happening.
The answer to your "what would happen" question is in there.
My brain blinks when I think of something I need to do in another room and after I walk there, it blinks to something else and I forget the reason I went there.
#oldageblinkingsucks
Were you thinking about the study mentioned in this article?
https://www.psychologytoday.co...
I'm sorry, I didn't mean to imply that I could, or was able to, clarify.
I was only pointing out that no one had asked me to. Before now, that is. If I could now edit my previous post, I would change "no one" to "only one".
"crypto-nazis"? I've always just called them "cryptos"
hmmph. I just fought a battle with auto- correct trying to change "cryptos" to "cryptosporidium". That's stupid, I almost never say "cryptosporidium" I just say" crypto" and no one has ever asked me to clarify.
And if you woke up too early, there was nothing on. Not that there were no interesting programmes, there was literally no show available to watch; just test patterns or static.
And of you stayed up late enough, you would see the F 101 Starfigher and High Flight poem
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
or in color:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Nooo! I wrote F101. It was a F104 Starfighter.
You could use a clothespin to attach a playing card to the fender support on your bicycle so that it would be hit by the spokes when you were rolling.
It made a sound somewhat like a small motor. You could attach 8 cards to convince yourself you had a 8 cylinder engine.
Another: we all knew what was meant by the flathead some of us had in our car, and didn't confuse that with our haircuts.
And if you woke up too early, there was nothing on. Not that there were no interesting programmes, there was literally no show available to watch; just test patterns or static.
And of you stayed up late enough, you would see the F 101 Starfigher and High Flight poem
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
or in color:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
What is this, the yearbook?
Oh crap, it just hit me, are we all about to die?
You are dead. All humans at dead. You think you're remembering this crap because we're doing brain dumps from the parts we found.
We're trying to figure out what went wrong with the design.
Your logic is unassailable; lol
Have you ever seen the mercury or sodium lights that constantly turn on and off? It takes a while for them to cycle and they gradually brighten on and off.
I'm told that bird poop is bad for the now-it's-dark sensor.
I've now seen two large-array LED street lights near where I live that have failed the same way. They're cycling about once every 3 seconds of full off and then to full on for a fraction of a second. It's like looking at a flash bulb going off every three seconds - total darkness, FLASH, total darkness.
I was stuck in traffic sitting under one doing this, and I hope it doesn't become common because people will start shooting at these.
> but if it were so, that's only a 77 hour week.
77 hours at a factory is different than 77 hours at a desk. There might even be quite a bit of down time (waiting for code to compile, test results to come back, etc.). I know some people play games in that time.
Good point - those hours are not the same at all.
Many assembly line jobs are bad for the health in ways that are much worse than sitting all day is bad for you.
You think 11 hours of work every day for three months is not going to kill anyone?
It might if you were a patient of these people: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
But unlikely if you're a young person.
The article did not say they were working 7-day weeks, nor was it every day, but if it were so, that's only a 77 hour week.
Many of us here on Slashdot have worked projects that called for putting in those kind of hours for months, and I'll bet some are working like that right now. The difference us and the Foxconn kids? They get paid for the overtime and we don't.
When categorize Nazi party as being left or right, rather than compare it to the communists, you could just as well compare the Nazis to the Weimar republic. You can't get consistent answers if you do that.
Personally, I think that labeling parties right/left (or even worse policies as right/left) engenders sloppy thinking and is often, if not usually, a tool for deceptive speech. In the case of labeling 20th century fascist movements as being right/left, you might as well try to categorize apples, grapes, and watermelons into right/left fruits. They are their own kind of thing and such simple binary labeling only serve to obscure what they are, and to obscure the nature of whatever they are being compared to.
So a launch each year would add 10 cents to the price of each kWh.
So you are proposing to double the price of electricity to do something that has questionable benefit. Nuclear plants are having problems being competitive now, how could they ever hope to compete if their price doubled? Even the current "plan" of on-site dry-cask storage of used fuel assemblies has a much lower probability of causing problems than trying to launch them into space. We have a large amount of uninhabited land in the US, we just need to suck it up and create a long-term repository (or bypass Harry Reid and use Yucca Mountain). It will be much cheaper and much safer than trying to launch tons of hot material on a spacecraft with no flights (hence no safety record).
Heh, I'm not proposing anything.
The poster above me made the blast it into space suggestion, and I wondered what it would cost with existing technology.
So, I did the math first and then made my post without calling the OP any names. And yeah, I know that's not the Internet way, but I was in a hurry to go someplace. I'm ready now, though: Anyone who wants to send nuclear waste into space is a doo-doo head.
Anyone considered just throwing it off planet?
Turn it into glassy lumps and simply throw it off planet with a linear accelerator. Take some gravitational influences into account and you could even aim it at the sun. The sun wouldn't notice the whole planet falling into and we're just talking about a few thousand tons of radioactive waste. (wait until we hear the arguments about polluting the sun. :-)
We would only need to send the high level waste into space.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
"A typical large 1000 MWe nuclear reactor produces 25–30 tons of spent fuel per year.[4] If the fuel were reprocessed and vitrified, the waste volume would be only about three cubic meters per year, but the decay heat would be almost the same."
Cost of a launch:
http://www.spacex.com/about/ca...
So to put the high-level waste into a high orbit, it looks like each 1 GW reactor would need one Falcon Heavy, which is about $90,000,000.
Electricity is priced by the kWh.
A 1.GW plant produces a million kWh each hour, or about 8,760,000 kWh a year. So a launch each year would add 10 cents to the price of each kWh.
You can adjust for the average uptime being more like 90% for modern plants.
Yes, the Coriolis Affect is a mental state where thoughts spin around in your brain due to exposure to egregious fucktardation.