> SO your sitting at a stop light and notice the trck approaching you from the rear is not slowing down. As a intelligent being, you move into the intersection and get out of the way.
> Now the automated system is sending you a ticket. One that will be near impossible to get out of
Unless, as an intelligent being, you think of writing back pointing out the truck in the photo evidence. It's not like these systems work with no manual intervention at all.
Wine yeasts already tolerate significantly higher alcohol levels than most yeasts. Google suggests you are going to be lucky to get above 15% from straight fermentation. Genetic engineering of yeasts might get it a bit higher, but probably not very much.
> However, there may be some subtle advantages in adding gaseous hydrogen and oxygen to the fuel mixture. I doubt they would compensate for the efficiencies in the first paragraph.
Possibly he's getting advantages from accidental water injection and the fact that he's trying to electrolyze it is a red herring.
(I remember years ago reading a review of a water injection device. The testers found real measurable gains in engine power and efficiency. Those gains remained once they removed the device and put a blanking plate in its place to cover the hole they had made to fit it - the mounting bolts (also used for the blanking plate) were introducing turbulence in the inlet manifold that happened to improve the fuel air mixing, even though generally you want a smooth inlet path.)
> If you drive across the french countryside you will see extensive fields of these crops being grown to support this law (bright yellow flowers)
But you also see the same fields in the UK where there is no such law. Oil-seed rape is widely grown for cooking use - it's the same thing as Canola.
Googling, it's widely used in France as a 5% additive to diesel because agricultural subsidies make it more economical than diesel (non-food crops can be grown on land which still counts as set-aside). http://www.villesdiester.asso.fr/5.Ab stracts/abstr act2.html
> I don't know if you can run a car directly from vegetable oil
It's possible to run some engines on straight oil without modification sometimes, but normally it requires preheating of the oil (at least for starting the engine) and/or modifying the oil.
http://www.vegburner.co.uk/votheory.htm gives a summary, google for "biodiesel" for lots more.
Re:NetHack is cool because you can play it at work
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> NetHack is cool because you can play it at work... nobody will notice you're playing a game
Not true if everyone else plays too. After I got the amulet out once I decided it was taking up too much time and I really had to stop. Which was a good thing, as my boss had decided the same thing, and my having already stopped when he brought it up was a good thing.
In the 15 years or so since then I've thought new releases looked cool, but even more time consuming, so resisted playing them.
> When the BSA does decide to do an audit... it's because they already have some evidence [...] > I know because a friend of mine got raided. The "tip" came from a business rival. The Marshals found everything was in order
So in fact when they do an audit it's because they have some evidence, or at least an allegation from someone who doesn't actually know any facts?
> Also if it was breached the Waste has been glassified, thats is mixed with molten glass and hardened.
Spent fuel for reprocessing (as featured in the news recently when it was found BNFL had falsified safety data for Japanese fuel they were reprocessing - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/646230.stm) also gets moved around by train (not all the way from Japan, obviously, but Sellafield isn't a port (and boats have accidents too)), and that isn't glassified.
(More background on fuel reprocessing - http://www.defra.gov.uk/rwmac/press/p001115.htm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/647981.stm)
While you're basically right, it's a bit unfair to include coal mining deaths and not include uranium mining in your nuclear statistics.
I'm still wondering how anyone gets the three trains in the previous post to collide head on, but I've seen photos of (empty) nuclear fuel containers after a deliberate test train crash, and they were still intact. The little uranium in coal is no problem in a train crash, but it does mean that most (all?) coal burning plants release more radioactivity than nuclear power stations are allowed. On the other hand it's hard to see how a coal power station can do as much damage in a single incident as Chernobyl when the people in charge do something really stupid (long term effects on climate change from continuous normal operation of lots of coal and gas powered plants compared with nucleur is another question).
> My grandmother has had a diesel Mercedes since 1980, and yes it still runs -- quite well actually. (And yes, she uses it EVERY day)
There are plenty of older diesel Merc taxis around, and they probably get driven harder than your grandmother's car (maybe not, but when my grandmother was driving every day, she was fairly gentle on her car).
Re:Ransom is such a negative word
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> a third party should step up to act as a broker and hold the money until the software is ready.
See Bruce Schneier's Street Performer Protocol "We introduce the Street Performer Protocol, an electronic-commerce mechanism to facilitate the private financing of public works. Using this protocol, people would place donations in escrow, to be released to an author in the event that the promised work is put in the public domain. This protocol has the potential to fund alternative or "marginal" works.
> Anyone need a slightly used geek transport [servebeer.com]?
> 2 studded winter tires > Florida car, very little rust
Do you really need winter tires in Florida? Ok, I realize you can do the occasional out of state trip that really needs winter tires while the rust depends on it's overall lifetime environment, it still looked strange. Or maybe I just have totally the wrong idea about Florida winters. (I'm in the UK (where we don't generally use winter tires, we put a grit and salt mixture on the roads when it does snow, so rust is a real problem), so shipping would cost more than your car is worth, I was just curious).
> Commander Servalan, the villian of the show who's always trying to recapture Blake and the rest.
President Servalan. And it got a bit more complicated after Blake went missing and Servalan was using a new identity (having been sentanced to death herself).
Fan club - http://www.horizon.org.uk/ BBC info - http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/ilove/tv/blakes7/
> For instance, if it just compressed the input and compared the result to a saved target, you could easily defeat it by something as simple as changing the names of identifiers in the source code.
_If_ you thought there was a Trojan in there to defeat. Until Ken's lecture nobody had thought of it (or if they had, they kept quiet).
It wouldn't work _now_. Back when there was only one Unix, which had only one C compiler, used to compile the single login source, it could have worked. And apparently did.
> I once was in what the British call a "Gilley" (spelling) Suit.
I've always seen it as ghillie, but http://www.m-w.com says "variant of gillie". In this context it's "2. chiefly Scottish & Irish : a fishing and hunting guide"
Basic idea is to disguise the outline of the body. Often enhanced with real local vegetation.
[Sodium chlorate] > You'd also have the nasty side effect of the letter becoming quite flammable when the mist dried, if you sprayed any substantial amount of solution on it (powerful oxidizer, remember
Used to be widely sold in the UK as a weedkiller and occasionally used by schoolchildren to make explosives. Now only sold with added fire retardant because of the IRA.
> You only use Éire if you're speaking in Irish, or if you're an American waxing lyrical about the 'Old Country'. Article 4 of The Constitution clearly shows this.
The preamble of the same constitution includes the phrase "We, the people of Éire", so it clearly _can_ be used in official contexts even when speaking English. But it probably helps to be an Irish speaker if you don't want to sound like an American waxing lyrical about the 'Old Country', and Republic of Ireland is probably clearer to more readers.
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It's a duty cycle of 99.1%. Unlikely, but hardly impossible.
> SO your sitting at a stop light and notice the trck approaching you from the rear is not slowing down. As a intelligent being, you move into the intersection and get out of the way.
> Now the automated system is sending you a ticket. One that will be near impossible to get out of
Unless, as an intelligent being, you think of writing back pointing out the truck in the photo evidence. It's not like these systems work with no manual intervention at all.
Wine yeasts already tolerate significantly higher alcohol levels than most yeasts. Google suggests you are going to be lucky to get above 15% from straight fermentation. Genetic engineering of yeasts might get it a bit higher, but probably not very much.
> What is the same as "the developers must do my bidding"?
"I employ the developers." Generally only works for closed source sofware.
> What is the phrase or action that will get the developers to actually do my bidding?
"I will pay lots of money for this."
> However, there may be some subtle advantages in adding gaseous hydrogen and oxygen to the fuel mixture. I doubt they would compensate for the efficiencies in the first paragraph.
Possibly he's getting advantages from accidental water injection and the fact that he's trying to electrolyze it is a red herring.
(I remember years ago reading a review of a water injection device. The testers found real measurable gains in engine power and efficiency.
Those gains remained once they removed the device and put a blanking plate in its place to cover the hole they had made to fit it - the mounting bolts (also used for the blanking plate) were introducing turbulence in the inlet manifold that happened to improve the fuel air mixing, even though generally you want a smooth inlet path.)
> If you drive across the french countryside you will see extensive fields of these crops being grown to support this law (bright yellow flowers)
b stracts/abstr act2.html
But you also see the same fields in the UK where there is no such law. Oil-seed rape is widely grown for cooking use - it's the same thing as Canola.
Googling, it's widely used in France as a 5% additive to diesel because agricultural subsidies make it more economical than diesel (non-food crops can be grown on land which still counts as set-aside).
http://www.villesdiester.asso.fr/5.A
> I don't know if you can run a car directly from vegetable oil
It's possible to run some engines on straight oil without modification sometimes, but normally it requires preheating of the oil (at least for starting the engine) and/or modifying the oil.
http://www.vegburner.co.uk/votheory.htm
gives a summary, google for "biodiesel" for lots more.
> NetHack is cool because you can play it at work... nobody will notice you're playing a game
Not true if everyone else plays too. After I got the amulet out once I decided it was taking up too much time and I really had to stop. Which was a good thing, as my boss had decided the same thing, and my having already stopped when he brought it up was a good thing.
In the 15 years or so since then I've thought new releases looked cool, but even more time consuming, so resisted playing them.
> When the BSA does decide to do an audit ... it's because they already have some evidence
[...]
> I know because a friend of mine got raided. The "tip" came from a business rival. The Marshals found everything was in order
So in fact when they do an audit it's because they have some evidence, or at least an allegation from someone who doesn't actually know any facts?
I recently went to see the Dinobirds exhibition at the Natural History Museum. Amazingly detailed fossils, down to feather details.
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http://www.nhm.ac.uk/museum/tempexhib/dinobirds
> Also if it was breached the Waste has been glassified, thats is mixed with molten glass and hardened.
m
Spent fuel for reprocessing (as featured in the news recently when it was found BNFL had falsified safety data for Japanese fuel they were reprocessing - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/646230.stm)
also gets moved around by train (not all the way from Japan, obviously, but Sellafield isn't a port (and boats have accidents too)), and that isn't glassified.
(More background on fuel reprocessing -
http://www.defra.gov.uk/rwmac/press/p001115.ht
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/647981.stm)
While you're basically right, it's a bit unfair to include coal mining deaths and not include uranium mining in your nuclear statistics.
I'm still wondering how anyone gets the three trains in the previous post to collide head on, but I've seen photos of (empty) nuclear fuel containers after a deliberate test train crash, and they were still intact. The little uranium in coal is no problem in a train crash, but it does mean that most (all?) coal burning plants release more radioactivity than nuclear power stations are allowed.
On the other hand it's hard to see how a coal power station can do as much damage in a single incident as Chernobyl when the people in charge do something really stupid (long term effects on climate change from continuous normal operation of lots of coal and gas powered plants compared with nucleur is another question).
> My grandmother has had a diesel Mercedes since 1980, and yes it still runs -- quite well actually. (And yes, she uses it EVERY day)
There are plenty of older diesel Merc taxis around, and they probably get driven harder than your grandmother's car (maybe not, but when my grandmother was driving every day, she was fairly gentle on her car).
> a third party should step up to act as a broker and hold the money until the software is ready.
l /
See Bruce Schneier's Street Performer Protocol
"We introduce the Street Performer Protocol, an electronic-commerce mechanism to facilitate the private financing of public works. Using this protocol, people would place donations in escrow, to be released to an author in the event that the promised work is put in the public domain. This protocol has the potential to fund alternative or "marginal" works.
http://www.counterpane.com/street_performer.htm
http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue6_6/rasch
Well, Be did claim that it would be the "Amiga for the 90s".
> Anyone need a slightly used geek transport [servebeer.com]?
> 2 studded winter tires
> Florida car, very little rust
Do you really need winter tires in Florida?
Ok, I realize you can do the occasional out of state trip that really needs winter tires while the rust depends on it's overall lifetime environment, it still looked strange. Or maybe I just have totally the wrong idea about Florida winters. (I'm in the UK (where we don't generally use winter tires, we put a grit and salt mixture on the roads when it does snow, so rust is a real problem), so shipping would cost more than your car is worth, I was just curious).
> The name "Datsun" was only used in North America
They were sold in the UK as Datsuns too (hence the old "raining Datsun cogs" joke). I don't know about the rest of Europe.
Similarly Mitsubishi used to use the Colt brand.
Fuji Heavy Industries still use Subaru.
Though you aren't actually allowed names in Scrabble.
> he just swapped the last two year digits round, thought it sounded like as good a future date as any
Think of the fictional future as a reflection of the (then) present.
> Commander Servalan, the villian of the show who's always trying to recapture Blake and the rest.
President Servalan. And it got a bit more complicated after Blake went missing and Servalan was using a new identity (having been sentanced to death herself).
Fan club - http://www.horizon.org.uk/
BBC info - http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/ilove/tv/blakes7/
> For instance, if it just compressed the input and compared the result to a saved target, you could easily defeat it by something as simple as changing the names of identifiers in the source code.
_If_ you thought there was a Trojan in there to defeat. Until Ken's lecture nobody had thought of it (or if they had, they kept quiet).
It wouldn't work _now_. Back when there was only one Unix, which had only one C compiler, used to compile the single login source, it could have worked. And apparently did.
> I once was in what the British call a "Gilley" (spelling) Suit.
I've always seen it as ghillie, but http://www.m-w.com says "variant of gillie".
In this context it's "2. chiefly Scottish & Irish : a fishing and hunting guide"
Basic idea is to disguise the outline of the body. Often enhanced with real local vegetation.
[Sodium chlorate]
> You'd also have the nasty side effect of the letter becoming quite flammable when the mist dried, if you sprayed any substantial amount of solution on it (powerful oxidizer, remember
Used to be widely sold in the UK as a weedkiller and occasionally used by schoolchildren to make explosives. Now only sold with added fire retardant because of the IRA.
> You only use Éire if you're speaking in Irish, or if you're an American waxing lyrical about the 'Old Country'. Article 4 of The Constitution clearly shows this.
The preamble of the same constitution includes the phrase "We, the people of Éire", so it clearly _can_ be used in official contexts even when speaking English. But it probably helps to be an Irish speaker if you don't want to sound like an American waxing lyrical about the 'Old Country', and Republic of Ireland is probably clearer to more readers.
> mechanical parts can actually be CNC-milled before they're even designed.
I've seen that done. It's called fucking up.
> I know you are supposed to actually look before you cross the road, but people just don't.
"Think of it as evolution in action."
And once the survivors have learnt to look, life will be easier for us cyclists.