Last I checked, it was just over a penny per can at most recyclers, so yeah, I can understand why someone wouldn't go out of their way and use up valuable time to save a penny. As a percentage of the cost of a can with its contents, I think its inconsequential to nearly everyone.
The only way recycling cans for money makes sense is if you are able to get someone else's cans in bulk for free.
I still recycle my cans for the nebulous idea of not creating waste, but there's not a good economic incentive presently to do so.
Although it violates conventional logic, or mythology in this case, a.22 is quite deadly. Last I read, they were responsible for a majority of firearms deaths in the U.S. They are cheap to possess and fire and have interesting ballistic properties. Because they lack the penetration power of a center-fire handgun round like 9MM NATO or.45ACP, they are known to follow the route of bones and connective tissue in your body and wreak wide-scale havoc. They are not effective defensive rounds because many of the people who are injured by them die hours or days later due to internal injuries and gradual blood loss. Thus the focus on "stopping power" in the debate over the merits of different types of handgun rounds (think tabs vs. spaces or vi vs. Emacs).
Anything that increases doubt in a victim's mind that a ransom would be successful decreases the expected value of a ransomware creator's haul, thus diminishing their incentive. It's not that the malware can't move to another domain or morph to use a strategy--my point is only that the ransomware business is based on the perception they will deliver what they offer, and any chink in that confidence is a net win.
While this doesn't do anything to improve life for the poor folks trying to retrieve their files, this type of aggressive approach may be required to eliminate the incentives for ransomware creators. It's truly the nuclear option, as the fallout is likely to hurt many unintended targets, but it could end the war.
While they often tend to have a Linux-variant OS on them, they are likely out of date due to the time delay required to layer the manufacturer customizations on top of a changing OS. They also obfuscate the raw OS enough that it is difficult to verify what's actually running on it.
Very little whitespace, including line breaks, needs to exist in web code meant to be consumed by another machine on the other end. If you are sending the original code typed by a developer over the web, you are doing it wrong. At a minimum, you would want to make sure your web server correctly supports compression, but generally you would want to pre-optimize your web content during your build process. The bandwidth argument is nonsensical and irrelevant to the tabs vs spaces argument.
This is not in any way meant to pick on you or your preference: I see many benefits of a properly-orchestrated tab coding convention. I just don't think anyone should make the decision based on flawed reasoning.
Elitist douche? I was just trying to correct misinformation as someone who has coded JavaScript inside and outside of the Node stack. Roughly, Node is to JavaScript as Ruby on Rails is to Ruby.
I think you have somehow misinterpreted my pedantry on terminology as a bone to pick with the JavaScript community. Not so.
The idea of adding such a significant feature in a non-major release is one of the reasons I shy away from Python. Their version management seems very out of sync with much of the rest of the software world.
Some of us even skipped the holding tank. My grandpa (a dairy farmer) used to milk the cow right into a cup of coffee on occasion. We had no illusions as to the origin of dairy products!:)
That's an awful lot of hyperbole!:) I think the ancestry of people has a lot to do with whether they find dairy both enjoyable and digestible. Those descended from herders tend to be better equipped to consume it.
It may also be that those of us in smaller cities near rural producers might actually get better quality milk.
Seems the chemical substances you are passing through that liver each day have left you with the inability to reason through subtlety and have left you with nothing but reductionist and straw man arguments. Congrats!
Tying your shoes is a mechanical operation, but no one would suggest you must have a mechanical engineering degree to do it. Some things you should just know to function in a high-tech environment. Speaking of which, an accidentally unplugged network cable is also most certainly a mechanical issue, which even a lowly mechanical engineer should be able to resolve.
I once worked with an H1-B visa holder who I thought was a great guy and a hard worker. I consider him a good friend from that time of my life. He had never used silverware or a plate before he came to America, so it's not hard to imagine that he'd also not had any deep exposure to tech as a youthful tinkerer, which I understood the original poster to consider favorable, maybe even essential, to his particular workplace's needs. There is a particular stereotype most H1-B workers fit into. They tend to be very intelligent, hard-working people who lack the confidence to take decisive action without frequent oversight or feedback. They are generally great at well-defined tasks that can be converted from specifications into product with rote processes. Coaching them out of that rut often forces both you and them to grow extensively. I mean this an objective look at the challenges involved, as I have developed a fondness for several people in this situation. The same things that tend to make them a bit hesitant in the workforce tend to also make them great people: they generally legitimately care about what others think and are looking for friends in a strange place!
Beyond that, does anyone log into Slashdot anymore? AC's used to be branded as shameless trolls to be ignored, and now it seems like every other post is from one. Maybe it's my fault for not ignoring you, but your comment seemed like it might be intended to be serious.
Are you serious? Couldn't possibly be because interference to GPS and cell service caused direct risk of life and economic damage? Surely it was lienholders who drove the banning of unlicensed crap radio hardware with wide-band, spurious, and unsuppressed harmonic emissions.
They just report their percentage of voluntary employee participation alongside their results. If one ethnic guy filled out his form and all the white guys didn't, it mathematically HAS TO skew the results. But a low participation count is basically a giant asterisk alongside the information.
Loss is a really interesting thing to think about. Most people think about the losses just disappearing, and relative to the electrical circuits, they do. I had an interesting experience when I started converting to CFLs and LEDs a few years ago. I found several new drafts in my house I had not been aware of and eventually bought all new windows. The incandescent lighting had basically been functioning as a distributed space heater system. It was significant enough to be noticeable, to me at least. If those lights were sufficient to function as space heaters in cold weather, they must have also been sufficient to cause my A/C unit to overwork in hot weather when the lighting was powered on.
That led me to: what exactly are the cascading impacts of loss in the form of heat in a home?
I guess I may be cynical enough to believe humanity is likely to drive itself to a new equilibrium through another global conflict before the ultimate fears of climate change are fully realized.
Thank you for the useful comment. It is very good food for thought. I am a ham also, which I think correlates highly with a desire to constantly tinker with things!
I don't like to reply to ACs, but your feedback seems meant to be legitimate, so I will assume you're not trolling. Even though the *facepalm* is a bit presumptive. I've clearly spent a lot more time thinking about this topic than you have.
I honestly can't imagine what you have in your house that would reach hundreds of amps on the proposed DC bus. Note that I am not advocating the DC bus running all the heavy appliance loads, but rather only all lighting and consumer electronics loads, something like 1 kW at 24V DC would seem adequate. Telecom has used 48V DC for a long time, so there is some precedent that could be leveraged for designs in this area.
Furnaces and ovens could easily be placed on exterior walls offering limited loss paths to the storage system. These are design changes that would be not dissimilar to those that happened as coal furnaces were replaced by electric ones. People adapted both existing homes and new designs.
I think the environmental concerns driving alternative energy are mostly overblown, but I'd like to see power generation at the home in the name of self-sufficiency and to decrease the global conflicts over energy.
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Last I checked, it was just over a penny per can at most recyclers, so yeah, I can understand why someone wouldn't go out of their way and use up valuable time to save a penny. As a percentage of the cost of a can with its contents, I think its inconsequential to nearly everyone.
The only way recycling cans for money makes sense is if you are able to get someone else's cans in bulk for free.
I still recycle my cans for the nebulous idea of not creating waste, but there's not a good economic incentive presently to do so.
Although it violates conventional logic, or mythology in this case, a .22 is quite deadly. Last I read, they were responsible for a majority of firearms deaths in the U.S. They are cheap to possess and fire and have interesting ballistic properties. Because they lack the penetration power of a center-fire handgun round like 9MM NATO or .45ACP, they are known to follow the route of bones and connective tissue in your body and wreak wide-scale havoc. They are not effective defensive rounds because many of the people who are injured by them die hours or days later due to internal injuries and gradual blood loss. Thus the focus on "stopping power" in the debate over the merits of different types of handgun rounds (think tabs vs. spaces or vi vs. Emacs).
Anything that increases doubt in a victim's mind that a ransom would be successful decreases the expected value of a ransomware creator's haul, thus diminishing their incentive. It's not that the malware can't move to another domain or morph to use a strategy--my point is only that the ransomware business is based on the perception they will deliver what they offer, and any chink in that confidence is a net win.
While this doesn't do anything to improve life for the poor folks trying to retrieve their files, this type of aggressive approach may be required to eliminate the incentives for ransomware creators. It's truly the nuclear option, as the fallout is likely to hurt many unintended targets, but it could end the war.
While they often tend to have a Linux-variant OS on them, they are likely out of date due to the time delay required to layer the manufacturer customizations on top of a changing OS. They also obfuscate the raw OS enough that it is difficult to verify what's actually running on it.
Yes, but they hate competition in doing so, so they try pretty hard to secure it from all other parties!
Very little whitespace, including line breaks, needs to exist in web code meant to be consumed by another machine on the other end. If you are sending the original code typed by a developer over the web, you are doing it wrong. At a minimum, you would want to make sure your web server correctly supports compression, but generally you would want to pre-optimize your web content during your build process. The bandwidth argument is nonsensical and irrelevant to the tabs vs spaces argument.
This is not in any way meant to pick on you or your preference: I see many benefits of a properly-orchestrated tab coding convention. I just don't think anyone should make the decision based on flawed reasoning.
Elitist douche? I was just trying to correct misinformation as someone who has coded JavaScript inside and outside of the Node stack. Roughly, Node is to JavaScript as Ruby on Rails is to Ruby.
I think you have somehow misinterpreted my pedantry on terminology as a bone to pick with the JavaScript community. Not so.
Third party here...no, I think the issue is that NodeJS is REALLY NOT a language, but is rather a framework and approach for writing JavaScript.
The idea of adding such a significant feature in a non-major release is one of the reasons I shy away from Python. Their version management seems very out of sync with much of the rest of the software world.
Some of us even skipped the holding tank. My grandpa (a dairy farmer) used to milk the cow right into a cup of coffee on occasion. We had no illusions as to the origin of dairy products! :)
That's an awful lot of hyperbole! :) I think the ancestry of people has a lot to do with whether they find dairy both enjoyable and digestible. Those descended from herders tend to be better equipped to consume it.
It may also be that those of us in smaller cities near rural producers might actually get better quality milk.
That's undocumented space immigrants, you insensitive clod!
I've eaten both, and I'll agree I felt much peppier after the BLT.
Seems the chemical substances you are passing through that liver each day have left you with the inability to reason through subtlety and have left you with nothing but reductionist and straw man arguments. Congrats!
Tying your shoes is a mechanical operation, but no one would suggest you must have a mechanical engineering degree to do it. Some things you should just know to function in a high-tech environment. Speaking of which, an accidentally unplugged network cable is also most certainly a mechanical issue, which even a lowly mechanical engineer should be able to resolve.
I once worked with an H1-B visa holder who I thought was a great guy and a hard worker. I consider him a good friend from that time of my life. He had never used silverware or a plate before he came to America, so it's not hard to imagine that he'd also not had any deep exposure to tech as a youthful tinkerer, which I understood the original poster to consider favorable, maybe even essential, to his particular workplace's needs. There is a particular stereotype most H1-B workers fit into. They tend to be very intelligent, hard-working people who lack the confidence to take decisive action without frequent oversight or feedback. They are generally great at well-defined tasks that can be converted from specifications into product with rote processes. Coaching them out of that rut often forces both you and them to grow extensively. I mean this an objective look at the challenges involved, as I have developed a fondness for several people in this situation. The same things that tend to make them a bit hesitant in the workforce tend to also make them great people: they generally legitimately care about what others think and are looking for friends in a strange place!
Beyond that, does anyone log into Slashdot anymore? AC's used to be branded as shameless trolls to be ignored, and now it seems like every other post is from one. Maybe it's my fault for not ignoring you, but your comment seemed like it might be intended to be serious.
Are you serious? Couldn't possibly be because interference to GPS and cell service caused direct risk of life and economic damage? Surely it was lienholders who drove the banning of unlicensed crap radio hardware with wide-band, spurious, and unsuppressed harmonic emissions.
15 miles? Are there no terrestrial (surface) RF-based connectivity solutions available to you?
Depends on whether slow means low latency or small bandwidth. SSH and telnet are miserable on a high latency link regardless of its bandwidth.
They just report their percentage of voluntary employee participation alongside their results. If one ethnic guy filled out his form and all the white guys didn't, it mathematically HAS TO skew the results. But a low participation count is basically a giant asterisk alongside the information.
Loss is a really interesting thing to think about. Most people think about the losses just disappearing, and relative to the electrical circuits, they do. I had an interesting experience when I started converting to CFLs and LEDs a few years ago. I found several new drafts in my house I had not been aware of and eventually bought all new windows. The incandescent lighting had basically been functioning as a distributed space heater system. It was significant enough to be noticeable, to me at least. If those lights were sufficient to function as space heaters in cold weather, they must have also been sufficient to cause my A/C unit to overwork in hot weather when the lighting was powered on.
That led me to: what exactly are the cascading impacts of loss in the form of heat in a home?
I guess I may be cynical enough to believe humanity is likely to drive itself to a new equilibrium through another global conflict before the ultimate fears of climate change are fully realized.
Thank you for the useful comment. It is very good food for thought. I am a ham also, which I think correlates highly with a desire to constantly tinker with things!
I don't like to reply to ACs, but your feedback seems meant to be legitimate, so I will assume you're not trolling. Even though the *facepalm* is a bit presumptive. I've clearly spent a lot more time thinking about this topic than you have.
I honestly can't imagine what you have in your house that would reach hundreds of amps on the proposed DC bus. Note that I am not advocating the DC bus running all the heavy appliance loads, but rather only all lighting and consumer electronics loads, something like 1 kW at 24V DC would seem adequate. Telecom has used 48V DC for a long time, so there is some precedent that could be leveraged for designs in this area.
Furnaces and ovens could easily be placed on exterior walls offering limited loss paths to the storage system. These are design changes that would be not dissimilar to those that happened as coal furnaces were replaced by electric ones. People adapted both existing homes and new designs.
I think the environmental concerns driving alternative energy are mostly overblown, but I'd like to see power generation at the home in the name of self-sufficiency and to decrease the global conflicts over energy.