...concluded a space body located in the outer reaches of the solar system is 435 miles (700 kilometers) larger than Pluto, the smallest planet. brWTF does that mean? Are we speaking circumference, diameter, radius, surface area? Who writes these articles?
I run my own boxes off my employer's electricity, but on an internet connection I barter for. I'm work in electronics recycling, so I trade hardware for bandwidth with an ISP in my building. Rackmout LCDs, UPS hardware, blade servers, you get the idea, for 3 IPs on a connection that's a bit quicker than your standard T1. My employer gets to save hosting costs for services related to online resales of recycled hardware by utilizing the servers and internet connection. And my hosting setup is all done with used post-recycled equipment.
I bought my Toshiba Satellite 1905-S03 used and it had the same problem. I couldn't finish a kernel compile on the 2.4Ghz machine without it shutting off. I opened it up and cleaned all the dust out of the copper heat sink, as it was a major airflow obstruction. I also cleaned all the old white heat sink paste off and used a silver based compound. The CPU temperature is much better now, and the fan doesn't even run most of the time. I bought it cheap because the last owner apparently assumed there was something majorly wrong with the machine, but it took less than an hour to repair.
It's all mercury. The organic compounds are bioaccumulative and the inorganic types aren't. Mercury in its elemental metallic form, as you handled, is inorganic. You can absorb it through the pores in your skin by handling it. It is more dangerous in vapor form, as it is more readily absorbed through your lungs and eyes. Inorganic mercury will not pass blood/brain barriers and will simply sit in your blood stream until it is filtered into your urine. Lots of people have handled metallic mercury and are perfectly fine. The problem is when your exposure level goes over what your body can filter, and you end up having a lot of the toxin circulating in your blood. These levels are only reached through regular exposure.
Mercury is not found in household incandescent bulbs. Mercury is found primarily in fluorescent style lamps. It's also in some industrial types of lamps, like HID (High Intensity Discharge) lamps. Most television projection lamps (from projection style televisions) contain mercury too. It's common industry practice to label mercury containing bulbs with mercury's elemental symbol: Hg. Fluorescent style lamps have a warm up, where they will flicker or appear dim before coming on to full brightness. The light from them is also more sterile. The light is given off by photons bouncing around in the tube. Incandescent lamps will light up immediately, and have a glowing metallic filament.
Interestingly enough, the term "Mad Hatter" is a reference to felt workers in the 18th and 19th century. Vats of mercury were used in the production of felt. The hatters suffered chronic mercury poisoning which includes, among other things, neurological damage.
The short answer: You are not in danger. We all have mercury in our blood at any given time, just from environmental exposure. Events like industrialization and volcanoes dump it into the atmosphere. Even dental amalgam (for tooth fillings) uses mercury and the ADA says it's safe. I'd only be worried about such small exposures if your are pregnant or a mentally developing child.
Yes it is an element and yes I was talking about compounds. Organic mercury contains covalent bonds between carbon and mercury. Inorganic mercury is when mercury bonds with anything but carbon, which includes oxygen, chlorine, sulfer, etc. Elemental mercury is also considered inorganic. I glossed over out of my own familiarity with the subject.
I work in the fluorescent tube recycling industry. The hazard from the tiny 2mm-4mm back light is negligible. I've done tests with a Jerome type meter, and they read way below (almost non-existent readings) OSHA limits for airborne exposure. OSHA states that you need a respirator for a time weighted average exposure above.1mg Hg/cubic meter. You need to break a lot of tubes to get close to this, probably hundreds of the tiny back light kind. Mercury does vaporize at room temperatures! It doesn't need to be heated!
The type of mercury used in fluorescents is the inorganic kind, which is a hell of a lot less dangerous than organic mercury. Inorganic mercury will be filtered out of your blood and come out in your urine, just like most toxins, but organic mercury is small enough to find it's way into your body fats and stay there for good. Organic mercury is usually what you find in fish.
I use a 1600SW on my desktop machine with the Number 9 Revolution Ticket to Ride 4 video card. It doesn't have a VGA input, but a non-standard DVI type. Great display though, I don't know if you'd have any luck hooking it up to a modern video card. After much trial and error, this is the modeline I had to use for 1600x1024 with X.org.:
I still have my Slackware subscription alive, mostly because Pat was having health problems, but I use Gentoo on most of my machines now. It's just easier to keep them up to date and install software. I still feel guilty about my switch.
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I have two IBM Model M's with buckling spring technology, made in 1984. They have PS/2 connectors on them as well. The cord is actually removable. The keyboard has a RJish looking jack in the back. Best Keyboard, EVER.
Internet Explorer and Mozilla/Firefox support HTTPS transactions. Outlook and Thunderbird support POP3S and IMAPS. These are programs you find on anyone's PC and use common protocols over an encrypted layer known as the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). So, this means anyone with a PC can have "criminal intent'? In fact, my/etc/shadow file contains encrypted hashes, I better start worrying.
How true, I'm working on getting the originals in laser disc format. I've already got a player. Sadly, my VHS copy of A New Hope was ruined in a hungry VCR. My online handle is named after a ship from the rebel fleet. Now, I couldn't care less about Star Wars. After seeing the "improved" originals and Episode 1, I was disgusted. Lucas can keep his stuff, I'm not making him any richer.
2. Effects on Humans: Mercury vapor can cause effects in the central and peripheral nervous systems, lungs, kidneys, skin and eyes in humans. It is also mutagenic and affects the immune system [Hathaway et al. 1991; Clayton and Clayton 1981; Rom 1992]. Acute exposure to high concentrations of mercury vapor causes severe respiratory damage, while chronic exposure to lower levels is primarily associated with central nervous system damage [Hathaway et al. 1991]. Chronic exposure to mercury is also associated with behavioral changes and alterations in peripheral nervous system [ACGIH 1991]. Pulmonary effects of mercury vapor inhalation include diffuse interstitial pneumonitis with profuse fibrinous exudation [Gosselin 1984]. Glomerular dysfunction and proteinuria have been observed mercury exposed workers [ACGIH 1991]. Chronic mercury exposure can cause discoloration of the cornea and lens, eyelid tremor and, rarely, disturbances of vision and extraocular muscles [Grant 1986]. Delayed hypersensitivity reactions have been reported in individuals exposed to mercury vapor [Clayton and Clayton 1981]. Mercury vapor is reported to be mutagenic in humans, causing aneuploidy in lymphocytes of exposed workers [Hathaway et al. 1991].
As said, you may as well have a hardware-based random number generator built around an unshielded chunk of plutonium.
The choice for me was easy, pay hundreds for Microsoft Office, or learn to use a mostly familiar, but different interface. I can't justify spending a week's income instead of just learning Open Office in my spare time. Office 2003 Pro retails for about $400.
The choice of an IT department is all about TCO and productivity. Will dumping Microsoft Office and moving to OO save money? You'll need to retrain, and productivity will be lower until everyone is comfortable with the new environment. But, you won't have software licensing costs. Future IT budget can go to hardware, jobs, pretzels, etc. in the next few years instead of going to Microsoft.
With Microsoft opening the format, you could start a gradual transition. Doing a simple letter? Use OpenOffice. Need to do something fancy in a hurry? Use Word, wait on learning OpenOffice till you have time. If both suites use a compatible XML format, it won't matter who you collaborate with, it should Just Work.
I keep my internet firewall and all public daemons up to date, but behind my network things are sorta left to when I get around to fixing them. For example, most of my sshd's are out of date, except the one that faces the internet. I use GnuPG with the Enigmail plugin for my signing my e-mail. That's about it for any encryption I use. I don't have any sensitive data and it's not worth the CPU time or hassle to use an encrypted loopback partition. I've been thinking about it for its geek factor, but, eh, whatever.
From your point of view, everyone who uses electronics is responsible for the conditions in China. Your use of computers is responsible for me selling them China. Then I am responsible for them employing/slaving children to process them. I'm sorry, it doesn't work that way and your argument is hypocritical. Sorry if I'm harsh, but I take what you're saying personally.
I work for one of those recycling places. Yes, we sell to China, mostly indirectly, but I know it ends up there. It's not our business what they do with it after they buy it. That's up to China.
I agree with you in general, the quality of live recordings leaves a lot to be desired. However, I hold on to some live recordings because bands sometimes play unreleased songs, do covers, and add quirks into existing songs. Also, some up and coming bands only have live recordings of their songs, having not been able to afford studio time yet. Of course, the up and coming bands usually encourage free distribution of their music.
I wouldn't check my email through other people's wireless networks, even over SSL. Checking slashdot and the news, sure, but you don't know what kind of traps are set on wireless networks - man in the middle attacks, dns spoofing, etc. Not to mention if the connection you happen to pick up isn't deliberately shared, you might be committing "theft of service" and your e-mail account is a nice pointer to who you were.
I don't think it has to be that way. The applications could be installed and run locally, but with unique serial numbers or "cd-keys" that query remote servers for your account info. Pretty much in the same way application activation works now. Application reports four hours of usage, you get billed on your account for it. With longhorn on the way with all its DRM crappiness, companies would feel safer deploying applications in this manner, I'm sure.
Guarana isn't a bogus ingredient. I have guarana extract in pills for when I've pulled an all nighter and need to work the next day. I take enough of it and my body temperature rises, my pulse rate goes up and my blood pressure rises. I even get chest pains from it. It's definitely a stimulant. I only started taking it since the effects of caffeine are totally null for me (tolerance). I'll probably need methamphetamine soon, heh.
This will do nothing more than give a warm fuzzy secure feeling to whoever thought this up. Think 9/11, did they use cell phones? No, they used humans and a big airplane. Watch the news about Israel. Do they get attacked by remotely detonated bombs? No, it's a person running in strapped with explosives pressing the button.
Even the bombings in Spain, they did use cell phones. But, they were just using the alarm clock function of the phone, with the phones ringer/vibrate function wired to the detonater. Cell phones were just a cheap reliable timer. They didn't have to send any signals out, or have service, just a small battery to tick away.
My point is that these attacks have not been technologically advanced, and they usually involve suicide. Cell phone jamming will just annoy and possibly terrorize the population you want to keep "safe". Maybe a suicide-jammer or an actual bomb-jammer might work, but let's see someone invent those.
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...concluded a space body located in the outer reaches of the solar system is 435 miles (700 kilometers) larger than Pluto, the smallest planet.
brWTF does that mean? Are we speaking circumference, diameter, radius, surface area? Who writes these articles?
I run my own boxes off my employer's electricity, but on an internet connection I barter for. I'm work in electronics recycling, so I trade hardware for bandwidth with an ISP in my building. Rackmout LCDs, UPS hardware, blade servers, you get the idea, for 3 IPs on a connection that's a bit quicker than your standard T1. My employer gets to save hosting costs for services related to online resales of recycled hardware by utilizing the servers and internet connection. And my hosting setup is all done with used post-recycled equipment.
I bought my Toshiba Satellite 1905-S03 used and it had the same problem. I couldn't finish a kernel compile on the 2.4Ghz machine without it shutting off. I opened it up and cleaned all the dust out of the copper heat sink, as it was a major airflow obstruction. I also cleaned all the old white heat sink paste off and used a silver based compound. The CPU temperature is much better now, and the fan doesn't even run most of the time. I bought it cheap because the last owner apparently assumed there was something majorly wrong with the machine, but it took less than an hour to repair.
It's all mercury. The organic compounds are bioaccumulative and the inorganic types aren't. Mercury in its elemental metallic form, as you handled, is inorganic. You can absorb it through the pores in your skin by handling it. It is more dangerous in vapor form, as it is more readily absorbed through your lungs and eyes. Inorganic mercury will not pass blood/brain barriers and will simply sit in your blood stream until it is filtered into your urine. Lots of people have handled metallic mercury and are perfectly fine. The problem is when your exposure level goes over what your body can filter, and you end up having a lot of the toxin circulating in your blood. These levels are only reached through regular exposure.
Mercury is not found in household incandescent bulbs. Mercury is found primarily in fluorescent style lamps. It's also in some industrial types of lamps, like HID (High Intensity Discharge) lamps. Most television projection lamps (from projection style televisions) contain mercury too. It's common industry practice to label mercury containing bulbs with mercury's elemental symbol: Hg. Fluorescent style lamps have a warm up, where they will flicker or appear dim before coming on to full brightness. The light from them is also more sterile. The light is given off by photons bouncing around in the tube. Incandescent lamps will light up immediately, and have a glowing metallic filament.
Interestingly enough, the term "Mad Hatter" is a reference to felt workers in the 18th and 19th century. Vats of mercury were used in the production of felt. The hatters suffered chronic mercury poisoning which includes, among other things, neurological damage.
The short answer: You are not in danger. We all have mercury in our blood at any given time, just from environmental exposure. Events like industrialization and volcanoes dump it into the atmosphere. Even dental amalgam (for tooth fillings) uses mercury and the ADA says it's safe. I'd only be worried about such small exposures if your are pregnant or a mentally developing child.
Yes it is an element and yes I was talking about compounds. Organic mercury contains covalent bonds between carbon and mercury. Inorganic mercury is when mercury bonds with anything but carbon, which includes oxygen, chlorine, sulfer, etc. Elemental mercury is also considered inorganic. I glossed over out of my own familiarity with the subject.
I work in the fluorescent tube recycling industry. The hazard from the tiny 2mm-4mm back light is negligible. I've done tests with a Jerome type meter, and they read way below (almost non-existent readings) OSHA limits for airborne exposure. OSHA states that you need a respirator for a time weighted average exposure above .1mg Hg/cubic meter. You need to break a lot of tubes to get close to this, probably hundreds of the tiny back light kind. Mercury does vaporize at room temperatures! It doesn't need to be heated!
The type of mercury used in fluorescents is the inorganic kind, which is a hell of a lot less dangerous than organic mercury. Inorganic mercury will be filtered out of your blood and come out in your urine, just like most toxins, but organic mercury is small enough to find it's way into your body fats and stay there for good. Organic mercury is usually what you find in fish.
Mercury Vapor
NIOSH/OSHA Mercury Vapor Health Guideline
Do you have an invite for kraytracker? Thanks.
I still have my Slackware subscription alive, mostly because Pat was having health problems, but I use Gentoo on most of my machines now. It's just easier to keep them up to date and install software. I still feel guilty about my switch.
I have two IBM Model M's with buckling spring technology, made in 1984. They have PS/2 connectors on them as well. The cord is actually removable. The keyboard has a RJish looking jack in the back. Best Keyboard, EVER.
Internet Explorer and Mozilla/Firefox support HTTPS transactions. Outlook and Thunderbird support POP3S and IMAPS. These are programs you find on anyone's PC and use common protocols over an encrypted layer known as the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). So, this means anyone with a PC can have "criminal intent'? In fact, my /etc/shadow file contains encrypted hashes, I better start worrying.
How true, I'm working on getting the originals in laser disc format. I've already got a player. Sadly, my VHS copy of A New Hope was ruined in a hungry VCR. My online handle is named after a ship from the rebel fleet. Now, I couldn't care less about Star Wars. After seeing the "improved" originals and Episode 1, I was disgusted. Lucas can keep his stuff, I'm not making him any richer.
Only one open gate in the default install, in more than 8 years!
The choice for me was easy, pay hundreds for Microsoft Office, or learn to use a mostly familiar, but different interface. I can't justify spending a week's income instead of just learning Open Office in my spare time. Office 2003 Pro retails for about $400.
The choice of an IT department is all about TCO and productivity. Will dumping Microsoft Office and moving to OO save money? You'll need to retrain, and productivity will be lower until everyone is comfortable with the new environment. But, you won't have software licensing costs. Future IT budget can go to hardware, jobs, pretzels, etc. in the next few years instead of going to Microsoft.
With Microsoft opening the format, you could start a gradual transition. Doing a simple letter? Use OpenOffice. Need to do something fancy in a hurry? Use Word, wait on learning OpenOffice till you have time. If both suites use a compatible XML format, it won't matter who you collaborate with, it should Just Work.
I keep my internet firewall and all public daemons up to date, but behind my network things are sorta left to when I get around to fixing them. For example, most of my sshd's are out of date, except the one that faces the internet. I use GnuPG with the Enigmail plugin for my signing my e-mail. That's about it for any encryption I use. I don't have any sensitive data and it's not worth the CPU time or hassle to use an encrypted loopback partition. I've been thinking about it for its geek factor, but, eh, whatever.
From your point of view, everyone who uses electronics is responsible for the conditions in China. Your use of computers is responsible for me selling them China. Then I am responsible for them employing/slaving children to process them. I'm sorry, it doesn't work that way and your argument is hypocritical. Sorry if I'm harsh, but I take what you're saying personally.
I work for one of those recycling places. Yes, we sell to China, mostly indirectly, but I know it ends up there. It's not our business what they do with it after they buy it. That's up to China.
I agree with you in general, the quality of live recordings leaves a lot to be desired. However, I hold on to some live recordings because bands sometimes play unreleased songs, do covers, and add quirks into existing songs. Also, some up and coming bands only have live recordings of their songs, having not been able to afford studio time yet. Of course, the up and coming bands usually encourage free distribution of their music.
I wouldn't check my email through other people's wireless networks, even over SSL. Checking slashdot and the news, sure, but you don't know what kind of traps are set on wireless networks - man in the middle attacks, dns spoofing, etc. Not to mention if the connection you happen to pick up isn't deliberately shared, you might be committing "theft of service" and your e-mail account is a nice pointer to who you were.
I don't think it has to be that way. The applications could be installed and run locally, but with unique serial numbers or "cd-keys" that query remote servers for your account info. Pretty much in the same way application activation works now. Application reports four hours of usage, you get billed on your account for it. With longhorn on the way with all its DRM crappiness, companies would feel safer deploying applications in this manner, I'm sure.
Guarana isn't a bogus ingredient. I have guarana extract in pills for when I've pulled an all nighter and need to work the next day. I take enough of it and my body temperature rises, my pulse rate goes up and my blood pressure rises. I even get chest pains from it. It's definitely a stimulant. I only started taking it since the effects of caffeine are totally null for me (tolerance). I'll probably need methamphetamine soon, heh.
This will do nothing more than give a warm fuzzy secure feeling to whoever thought this up. Think 9/11, did they use cell phones? No, they used humans and a big airplane. Watch the news about Israel. Do they get attacked by remotely detonated bombs? No, it's a person running in strapped with explosives pressing the button.
Even the bombings in Spain, they did use cell phones. But, they were just using the alarm clock function of the phone, with the phones ringer/vibrate function wired to the detonater. Cell phones were just a cheap reliable timer. They didn't have to send any signals out, or have service, just a small battery to tick away.
My point is that these attacks have not been technologically advanced, and they usually involve suicide. Cell phone jamming will just annoy and possibly terrorize the population you want to keep "safe". Maybe a suicide-jammer or an actual bomb-jammer might work, but let's see someone invent those.
Just add water!!
More importantly, can it mass produce tin foil hats?