Oil companies could do themselves a world of good by stopping much of their activities in making fuel. They'd not have all the regulatory headaches and they'd still have a market for their product. It is a moments tweaking to crack feedstock rather than fuel.
I'm surprised this hasn't been done before. Anyone who has handled a carbon steel framed firearm that's blued or parkerized but not painted or otherwise coated can tell you they etch pretty damn well from sweaty fingerprints. I've also seen brass shell casings with fingerprints, the prints turn black with age. There are now lacquer or polymer coated steel shell casings that would limit this effect. They're made of those materials because of cost. Many modern firearms are now coated rather than blued or parkerized though the magazines may not be. I recall seeing an antique firearm deeply etched in what could have started out being a finger print.
So this would be useful in cases where a metal object had been touched and allowed enough time for the chemical corrosion to take place. It would not be perfect as the object could have been made out of scrap and an innocent could be blamed.
Professor Anil Aggrawal http://members.tripod.com/~Prof_Anil_Aggrawal/index.html specializes in toxicology but he might know who specializes in other aspects of forensics. I mention his web page because he's funny and has interesting information on toxins and forensic programming.
I mixed some wording up. "Fall out" in the first paragraph means "Fail". The mylar capacitors will be swollen and cause the board to fail or we get them back from the field and they will be swollen. The ceramic ones crack from the heat. We no require our board house to hand solder those in and we've replaced the ceramic ones with leaded parts and hand solder those in a surface mount.
The chips are falling off the board. It's some sort of bizarre corrosion. Have only seen two so far but it's odd having a part as big as an Intel 196 processor go missing. One hopes it didn't evolve.
I've had two Gigabyte motherboards die because of a botched industrial espionage incident. Manufacturers across several industries had use these parts.
I've been seeing heat related issues, some component manufacturers have removed the lead but their parts do not hold up to the heat required for no-lead reflow and wave soldering. We're having parts not only fall out during testing but getting field failures back. This is for non-electrolytic capacitors a ceramic surface mount type and a through hole mylar type.
I've been seeing some units that were done with no-lead less than a year ago where parts are falling off the board. These were some of our early no-lead units so they'll just warranty them and replace the boards.
It depends on the area and the farm. When I was a kid you might have had a gun handy or not. The gun really wasn't there to deter people it was there to maybe take game or put down a badly injured animal.
In Indiana in some areas within the last few decades there have been enough incidents involving strangers that farmers do go armed for people. A farm near my parents had an incident where someone started shooting at a combine. There was no warning and no reason was ever found. There was also a sniper incident in that area recently where several people were killed. While there are hunters in that area the sniper incident encouraged a large number of people to learn what a rifle is and what it can do. I suspect there are more non-hunters who can shoot than hunters in that area now.
If you're going to go to a rural area and be an ass expect to get cornholed. I like the comic but if it's readers are such stupid fucking morons as to trespass they can be hog feed for all I would care.
I've seen similar done with FPGA's. A product I did RMA worked on could be flash upgraded with more features than the stock unit. These were changes that normally would have taken a hardware upgrade but it only took a few minutes to download the upgrade and enter the license code.
Put the onus on the financial institution monetarily and make it treble damages in addition to jury awarded punitive damages and legal fees. Make it so that it must go before a jury and not ever arbitration. I'd want punitive damages so high their investors suffer and I'd want those damages set aside in a fund to help identity theft victims have damages that don't warrant or won't benefit fro a lawsuit or have emergency needs.
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Oil companies could do themselves a world of good by stopping much of their activities in making fuel. They'd not have all the regulatory headaches and they'd still have a market for their product. It is a moments tweaking to crack feedstock rather than fuel.
Are they sure it's NOT martian whiskey? ;) Or some sort of liquid that looks like water when frozen?
I'm surprised this hasn't been done before. Anyone who has handled a carbon steel framed firearm that's blued or parkerized but not painted or otherwise coated can tell you they etch pretty damn well from sweaty fingerprints. I've also seen brass shell casings with fingerprints, the prints turn black with age. There are now lacquer or polymer coated steel shell casings that would limit this effect. They're made of those materials because of cost. Many modern firearms are now coated rather than blued or parkerized though the magazines may not be. I recall seeing an antique firearm deeply etched in what could have started out being a finger print.
So this would be useful in cases where a metal object had been touched and allowed enough time for the chemical corrosion to take place. It would not be perfect as the object could have been made out of scrap and an innocent could be blamed.
Professor Anil Aggrawal http://members.tripod.com/~Prof_Anil_Aggrawal/index.html
specializes in toxicology but he might know who specializes in other aspects of forensics.
I mention his web page because he's funny and has interesting information on toxins and forensic programming.
It tastes like chicken.
You knew that was coming.
It really tastes like pigeon. ;)
Which kind tastes like quail, the bird not the polytick.
Which reminds me I'm hungry again.
So I'm having....chicken.
At least it'll be a curry and not fried.
I went to the artists website.
http://www.discemori.com/
She has a kitten rug.
I blogged it and am getting responses of appreciation for some of the artists work.
I meet the craziest peoples.
I just find it creepy. Even if I know what parrot tastes like.
http://www.klimt02.net/jewellers/index.php?item_id=5860
Film 20+
Encoded and printed on acid free paper and India ink and with the ability to use a standard scanner or digital camera to convert it back. 100+
Baudot encoded paper tape just for nostalgia's sake.
Harddrives. 5+
VCR tape (lasts longer than CD) 5+ with degradation
CD 5-
DVD 5--
I mixed some wording up. "Fall out" in the first paragraph means "Fail". The mylar capacitors will be swollen and cause the board to fail or we get them back from the field and they will be swollen. The ceramic ones crack from the heat. We no require our board house to hand solder those in and we've replaced the ceramic ones with leaded parts and hand solder those in a surface mount.
The chips are falling off the board. It's some sort of bizarre corrosion. Have only seen two so far but it's odd having a part as big as an Intel 196 processor go missing. One hopes it didn't evolve.
They couldn't shoot well enough to hit a tank sized target at 100 yards. So no. ;)
Have something displaying one of these or others you find.
/. article just before this one.
From the
http://vis.cs.ucdavis.edu/~ogawa/codeswarm/
Xaos does autozoom and continually refreshes.
http://wmi.math.u-szeged.hu/xaos/doku.php
I like electric sheep
http://www.electricsheep.org/
Galaxy simulator
http://kornelix.squarespace.com/galaxy/
I've had two Gigabyte motherboards die because of a botched industrial espionage incident. Manufacturers across several industries had use these parts.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague
They have it as a poster states but I'm partial to this myself.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davy_Crockett_(nuclear_device)
http://www.guntruck.com/DavyCrockett.html
http://www.brookings.edu/projects/archive/nucweapons/davyc.aspx
M-388 Davy Crockett nuclear weapon. It used the smallest nuclear warhead ever developed by the United States.
That add-on is moronic. It lets you ban them after it's screwed your system?
http://offbyone.com/offbyone/
Try that. It's a rather amazing browser. The zip will fit on a floppy. The executable will but you won't be able to fit the SSLeay dlls on it.
Of course I go to fire it up to make sure it really works on my linux system under wine and wine has been updated to death again.
I've been seeing heat related issues, some component manufacturers have removed the lead but their parts do not hold up to the heat required for no-lead reflow and wave soldering. We're having parts not only fall out during testing but getting field failures back. This is for non-electrolytic capacitors a ceramic surface mount type and a through hole mylar type.
I've been seeing some units that were done with no-lead less than a year ago where parts are falling off the board. These were some of our early no-lead units so they'll just warranty them and replace the boards.
As to the tin whisker problem NASA has a lot of information on it.
http://nepp.nasa.gov/WHISKER/
But I can't see where they're following their own advice if it means it's a 'show stopper'
http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/content/?cid=4537
Like all self professing experts he's a well paid off self professing expert.
It depends on the area and the farm. When I was a kid you might have had a gun handy or not. The gun really wasn't there to deter people it was there to maybe take game or put down a badly injured animal.
In Indiana in some areas within the last few decades there have been enough incidents involving strangers that farmers do go armed for people. A farm near my parents had an incident where someone started shooting at a combine. There was no warning and no reason was ever found. There was also a sniper incident in that area recently where several people were killed. While there are hunters in that area the sniper incident encouraged a large number of people to learn what a rifle is and what it can do. I suspect there are more non-hunters who can shoot than hunters in that area now.
If you're going to go to a rural area and be an ass expect to get cornholed. I like the comic but if it's readers are such stupid fucking morons as to trespass they can be hog feed for all I would care.
I've seen similar done with FPGA's. A product I did RMA worked on could be flash upgraded with more features than the stock unit. These were changes that normally would have taken a hardware upgrade but it only took a few minutes to download the upgrade and enter the license code.
The device was Xilinx, it worked well enough.
Would a properly backed up file allow you to recover the key? Would it then be possible to run a honey pot and checking it for encrypted files?
Nah the scientist put sildenafil citrate in the dish.
STFU let Balledmer keel it!
Legal notaries can and will commit fraud for a suitable fee but I can get a notary stamp and do it myself cheaper. ;)
http://www.notarypublicstamps.com/products.asp?StateID=15
Put the onus on the financial institution monetarily and make it treble damages in addition to jury awarded punitive damages and legal fees. Make it so that it must go before a jury and not ever arbitration. I'd want punitive damages so high their investors suffer and I'd want those damages set aside in a fund to help identity theft victims have damages that don't warrant or won't benefit fro a lawsuit or have emergency needs.
It would be nice to watch misleading, uninformative crap be forced off the main page.
Fuck it. I'll buy 10 of them and give them to children.
Just fuck it.