Now we'll be able to eat the storage medium in order to survive the apocalypse, which wasn't possible with hard drives. Add to this a few corpsicles of frozen rich dead people and you are set for a while.
Why is the Arctic melting, while the Antarctic is accumulating ice? That's actually a far more odd and puzzling phenomenon that is yet unexplained
It's not and the explanation is very simple. It's for the same reason that the summit of Mt Blanc is accumulating ice (and thus raising) while the surrounding summits do not: Antarctica as well as the summit of Mt Blanc are too cold to melt, even with global warming. But since because of the warming there's more evaporation and thus more humidity in the atmosphere, this humidity will condense more than before in those two cold places, and since it's never warm enough thus more snow accumulates there. The north pole and lower mountains get warm enough in summer for melting to occur, so they are losing ice. Antarctica and the highest mountains do not (yet).
I don't remember where to find this, but there's an argument about the energy level of the vacuum. Depending on if you compute it from quantum physics first principles or from relativity (?) first principles, you get 120 orders of magnitude of difference (!!!) which amusingly somebody compared with the volume of space compared to only the volume of stars and planets (in other words, everything including empty space vs just the interesting stuff). So it could well correspond to a simulation where they only simulate the interesting bits to save on computation power...
So basically the load average of their production is going way up. Instead of having billions of underutilised PCs, you have millions of servers running at nearly full potential, and lots of low-powered devices (think phones, tablets, thin clients) also running fairly hot.
On my tablet right now (the first Note 10), I have Chrome, S Note and Sketchbook open in the back.
I have them basically Always On Top above the sketchbook when working between the 3.
I envy you. On my Android phone whenever I switch app, it closes the former one. If I switch back, I have to reopen and go back to whatever I was doing. And it can take up to 15s just to switch app. Fucking useless, and with a phone that was top of the line last year too. I don't understand how they design this garbage.
Well at work we just went from all Dell laptops and HP desktops/servers to all new HP laptops and Dell desktops/servers (don't ask...). So my next laptop arriving next week will be an HP (my Latitude E6410 has served me well and is still in great shape so will go to an underling). But all those negative comments are disheartening... C:-(
Actually many where. I don't know about the UK, but from France the only ones sent to the colonies were religious fanatics, drunks who were caught on the street the night before the ships left, and whores.
(This joke inspired by a co-worker who used to have an index card with a 5x5 grid of UserIDs and passwords for 25 different internal/external sites he had to access regularly taped to his monitor....)
I do have one such list on my wall, except that they are all fake and badly handwritten, with plenty of ambiguity (1/I/l, 0/O...), so subject to plenty of retries if an attacker has time to spend.
About 'an eye for an eye', you have also the alternative to use the old roman method against terrorists (weren't called like that at the time): execute their entire family, and make them watch, then kill them. It tends to extinguish revolutionary threats and hotheads really fast.
Too bad I don't have mod points right now, but that's an excellent analysis. I believe/. comment system to be the best on the internet, but it sure can be improved.
If I go to http://m.slashdot.org/ on firefox desktop, it redirects to https://slashdot.org/ (thanks for the new https BTW), if I do the same in Firefox for Android, I get a blank page. You should make it trivial to switch between desktop and mobile version, try not to guess 'm.' or not, and respect the 'request desktop site' option of some browsers. In other words, fix the bugs and respect the version of the site the user want, never mind their actual OS.
Having a good and efficient photography workflow is difficult to figure out and set up. I looked up Picassa before it was bought by Google, I liked it but I never liked the idea of having my pictures hosted by someone else. So I have my own workflow: shell script to move and rename the pics from the camera card to the PC, SilkyPix for the RAW edition, PTgui for the panorama edition, Gimp for custom edits, ashell script for archival and backup and Gallery2 for semi-public (friends, family and customers) broadcast, hosted only my own Apache+Php server. I control the chain, the images are mine and I know who accesses them. Great.
But Gallery2 also has been unmaintained for several years, with Gallery3 going nowhere. It still works fine, but one day it won't after an uncompatible php update or a security leak. So what's the alternative ? I can't care less about Picassa !
Android question. I already have Firefox with addblock on my phone, but how do I make sure the browser and/or the adds (in case they are handled externally from the browser ) NEVER has access to the GPS ? Note that I don't want to turn GPS off since I often use it for navigation...
I have a computer engineer colleague who's a muscle car/motorbike enthusiast (to use the better term) and he's convinced that robocars will never interest anyone because he LIKES to drive and he thinks everybody else is the same. Oh man, he's going to be surprised once the accident stats are out in a decade or two and human drivers are banned altogether !
But if it goes through your overhead lightbulb, it still means it only works when it's turned on, otherwise there's no power since the switch is off ! It's not just a question of visible light / invisible light.
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Now we'll be able to eat the storage medium in order to survive the apocalypse, which wasn't possible with hard drives. Add to this a few corpsicles of frozen rich dead people and you are set for a while.
Why is the Arctic melting, while the Antarctic is accumulating ice? That's actually a far more odd and puzzling phenomenon that is yet unexplained
It's not and the explanation is very simple. It's for the same reason that the summit of Mt Blanc is accumulating ice (and thus raising) while the surrounding summits do not: Antarctica as well as the summit of Mt Blanc are too cold to melt, even with global warming. But since because of the warming there's more evaporation and thus more humidity in the atmosphere, this humidity will condense more than before in those two cold places, and since it's never warm enough thus more snow accumulates there. The north pole and lower mountains get warm enough in summer for melting to occur, so they are losing ice. Antarctica and the highest mountains do not (yet).
Well, that's the end of the world according to Unix anyway, so you're not taking a great risk with the prediction.
I don't remember where to find this, but there's an argument about the energy level of the vacuum. Depending on if you compute it from quantum physics first principles or from relativity (?) first principles, you get 120 orders of magnitude of difference (!!!) which amusingly somebody compared with the volume of space compared to only the volume of stars and planets (in other words, everything including empty space vs just the interesting stuff). So it could well correspond to a simulation where they only simulate the interesting bits to save on computation power...
So basically the load average of their production is going way up. Instead of having billions of underutilised PCs, you have millions of servers running at nearly full potential, and lots of low-powered devices (think phones, tablets, thin clients) also running fairly hot.
On my tablet right now (the first Note 10), I have Chrome, S Note and Sketchbook open in the back. I have them basically Always On Top above the sketchbook when working between the 3.
I envy you. On my Android phone whenever I switch app, it closes the former one. If I switch back, I have to reopen and go back to whatever I was doing. And it can take up to 15s just to switch app. Fucking useless, and with a phone that was top of the line last year too. I don't understand how they design this garbage.
Well at work we just went from all Dell laptops and HP desktops/servers to all new HP laptops and Dell desktops/servers (don't ask...). So my next laptop arriving next week will be an HP (my Latitude E6410 has served me well and is still in great shape so will go to an underling). But all those negative comments are disheartening... C:-(
can it make me a sandwich ?
Actually many where. I don't know about the UK, but from France the only ones sent to the colonies were religious fanatics, drunks who were caught on the street the night before the ships left, and whores.
(This joke inspired by a co-worker who used to have an index card with a 5x5 grid of UserIDs and passwords for 25 different internal/external sites he had to access regularly taped to his monitor....)
I do have one such list on my wall, except that they are all fake and badly handwritten, with plenty of ambiguity (1/I/l, 0/O...), so subject to plenty of retries if an attacker has time to spend.
Except that most Arnica sold nowadays is homeopathic, meaning there's nothing in the tube except for vaseline.
About 'an eye for an eye', you have also the alternative to use the old roman method against terrorists (weren't called like that at the time): execute their entire family, and make them watch, then kill them. It tends to extinguish revolutionary threats and hotheads really fast.
Too bad I don't have mod points right now, but that's an excellent analysis. I believe /. comment system to be the best on the internet, but it sure can be improved.
If I go to http://m.slashdot.org/ on firefox desktop, it redirects to https://slashdot.org/ (thanks for the new https BTW), if I do the same in Firefox for Android, I get a blank page. You should make it trivial to switch between desktop and mobile version, try not to guess 'm.' or not, and respect the 'request desktop site' option of some browsers. In other words, fix the bugs and respect the version of the site the user want, never mind their actual OS.
But Gallery2 also has been unmaintained for several years, with Gallery3 going nowhere. It still works fine, but one day it won't after an uncompatible php update or a security leak. So what's the alternative ? I can't care less about Picassa !
Are there any classic games left where humans have a marked advantage over computers ?
How widespread is this ransomware on Linux ? Any reports in the wild, or is it just a proof of concept ?
Android question. I already have Firefox with addblock on my phone, but how do I make sure the browser and/or the adds (in case they are handled externally from the browser ) NEVER has access to the GPS ? Note that I don't want to turn GPS off since I often use it for navigation...
Nothing will come of any of this. China will ship them some more food and they'll quiet down until the crops fail next year.
Why do their crops seem to fail year after year ? Do they put ALL their resources in the military and nothing for the rest of the country ?
In the future you can use < and > to form < and >
What's the point of talking 193 hours if you are not even going to vote NO but only abstain ?!?
I have a computer engineer colleague who's a muscle car/motorbike enthusiast (to use the better term) and he's convinced that robocars will never interest anyone because he LIKES to drive and he thinks everybody else is the same. Oh man, he's going to be surprised once the accident stats are out in a decade or two and human drivers are banned altogether !
I truly hope that either quantum computers come along to ruin public-key cryptography
Then you'll love Travelling Salesman.
If interested in this potential star-reaching tech, read Robert L. Forward's book Rocheworld.
But if it goes through your overhead lightbulb, it still means it only works when it's turned on, otherwise there's no power since the switch is off ! It's not just a question of visible light / invisible light.