You think they haven't already sent it to other parties for "backup"? Knowing the sensitivity of the information, and that agents are prepared to take take extra-legal action against them, they would be stupid not to share it before announcing they have it. It's one of those "in the event of my demise" situations.
However, the people to whom they entrusted the information will sit on it as requested, if they ever want to be given the same consideration in the future.
There's no problem using an RLL drive on an MFM controller, if that's the combination that happens to be available.
That is true, because there is no physical difference in the drives. One has been tested as reliable with RLL, and the other has not. That's the only difference between an ST-225 and an ST-238R. Both will work with either kind of controller, but the ST-225 was not tested for it. At this point in the hardware lifecycle, I hardly think it matters.
I find it striking how much Figure 8 in the PDF, showing the location of single-bit faults, resembles the acoustic power spectrum of something behaving like a closed tube. I see clear odd numbered partials and weak even numbered partials, with a missing fundamental. I would not be surprised if this distribution turns out to be connected to the exact timing of the attacks. Sweeping the timing of the attacks may cause other bits to be affected.
Sadly this cannot be conveniently used in more different western languages (I believe you will find most Chinese dialects have shared grammatical standards), because word order and grammatical standards are based on spoken language.
Hinder communications, this does. Prevent them, it does not. It just makes everyone sound like Yoda to the other dialects.
Not RLL, FM/MFM only. RLL converts a string of bits into a longer but physically easier string of bits so it can pack in more effective density. Unfortunately, you've already lost control of the bits on the drive at this point.
Whoops, looks like my information was a decade out of date. Apparently the ceiling effect and 2D6 saturation have since been demonstrated to be fallacious. The only part that IS true is the poor morphine conversion efficiency.
Combining codeine and Tylenol is more effective than Tylenol alone, but not as effective as codeine alone in a larger dose.
No, codeine has a ceiling effect. Codeine itself does very little, it has to be converted to morphine by the action of enzyme CYP2D6 in the liver to do its job (and this only at about 10% efficiency). Somewhere around 150 mg of codeine, the 2D6 system is saturated and adding more codeine means it gets processed by other means. The other metabolic pathways do not lead to morphine. At best, they lead to apomorphine, which makes you sick and gives you a hard-on. Codeine is inherently self-limiting, and really can use the help of the acetaminophen.
It's all because the Peruvians chase their earthquakes away! Where are they going to go? Chile, of course! Superstition seems to be protecting Peru, but at what cost to their neighbors?
Since this vaguely resembles Lent, I think we should precede it with "Swear Like A Sailor" day on February 28 (or 29). I bet this inversion would prove more popular than the original event, just like most people going to Mardi Gras have no interest in Lent, just the massive party.
This could be wonderful for socialization. Imagine this from a kid's perspective. On a bus, you get to socialize with whoever is seated close to you, and not do much else but horseplay. If you could instead spend that time to do homework, you gain the same amount of free time at home to socialize with the people you LIKE (who may or may not be the same people as you sat with on the bus), and *gasp* maybe even go outside and play!
More likely though it'll get used to play networked games with or against each other. That's still not a bad thing though, since that is likely something you'd do when you got home anyhow.
The wifi on the bus goes up and down, Up and down, up and down. The wifi on the bus goes up and down, All through the town! </sing>
Seriously though, will we get this on city buses and trains? And the stations? This could considerably encourage the use of public transportation at a fairly low cost to cities.
Eat some shrooms or smoke some DMT. Now THOSE drugs will produce spiritual experiences...
I tried, but the machine elves kept laughing at me. DMT, at least smoked, does not last very long. In the form of ayahuasca, it can go on for hours.
Don't forget 2-CB (and relatives), mescaline, and peyote for this kind of effect, though they are phenethylamines rather than tryptamines. Some phenethylamines have a decidedly speedy edge (after all, amphetamines are phenethylamines) but other ones are much more laid back. Not all of them cause E-dick either. 2-CB sure as hell doesn't.
Every student that can borrow binoculars, SHOULD. For one thing, it gives kids something to do when it's not their turn. For another, one of the students might spot a target through the binoculars that is worth scope time. They're going to point out to each other things they think are cool, ask them to tell you too. Be prepared to answer some "what is that?" questions you may not know the answer to, since they'll be able to scan a lot more sky than you will.
as I see it the NRC has 2 choices here: 1) get out in front of this, shut down the plant and show they're committed to safe nuclear power 2) keep Vermont Yankee operating despite being in violation of numerous EPA requirements and call all the doubters silly I can't see #2 working as it will only fuel the anti-nuke crowd since they will be showing they're not even committed to safety with the plants we have now what happens when there are hundreds more.
or 3) change the requirements and declare Vermont Yankee to be in compliance with the rules that were rewritten specifically for them.
This is made a bit more difficult by the fact that the regulations in question are those of the EPA, not the NRC, but you have to admit the idea is at least plausible.
I was lucky enough to have my mother tell me "if you get disciplined or suspended for defending yourself, you won't hear a word about it from me." Unfortunately I went somewhat overboard and when I would snap and go off on someone, I would do it thoroughly. I picked up some scars. They picked up broken noses and missing teeth.
To this day I am reluctant to get drawn into a conflict because once that switch flips, it is all over. I see red, and I will not stop until the other guy is not getting up, or his friends drag him away, or someone restrains me. I will wait for the other guy to make a move, but once he does it's all about making sure he is no longer a threat -- whatever it takes.
Duh. Depressed people generally want to avoid social interaction, or take it in short bursts at their own pace as it suits them. The Internet is perfect for this. The excessive time spent online is a symptom, not a cause.
If energy is cheap, so is the type of chemistry they use. Given adequate energy input, that gasoline can be made into something more useful (like a heavier fraction). This may make oil companies evolve, but it won't kill them. It also will make their profits less visible, as people will not buy fuel. They'll buy things made of petrochemicals but will not directly associate the prices of those goods with the price of the raw materials.
Oil companies are manufacturing and distributing organic chemicals made in vast quantities. The end use is not really important to them, people just have to buy the stuff. It doesn't matter if that's in the form of gas, fertilizer, or Barbie dolls.
There's no way to save whatever you've drawn onto the tablet
Sure there is. Scan it or photocopy it before you erase it. If these get popular enough, scanners will be made smart enough to deal with the low contrast (grayish background) and white-on-black with a single button. Obviously it's not hard to do in software.
It could obviously be better if the device could scan itself, but there is a workaround for now.
Also is he plotting this based on potentially spoofed IP addresses? I'm thinking not just a botnet, but a botnet that doesn't care if it's getting packets back or not. It may not be every country in the world, just a bunch of random IPs coming from zombies which may (or may not) be in far-flung places.
I bet it was your run of the mill social engineering. Someone on the attacking side befriended someone on the inside and either coaxed the information out, or just waited until they mentioned it in passing. Once they knew who to target, they could then pump this employee to see if the attack was having any effect, from the perspective of an insider.
It could be a Facebook friend, it could be a normal face-to-face friend, or it might be a "swallow". Governments certainly use this method of social engineering, but I would be quite surprised if companies do not do it as well.
Rather than maintaining separate designs for separate lines, unify everything. Their low end DX11 parts are the same thing as their high end DX11 parts, just less of it. Less shaders, less ROPs, smaller memory controllers, etc.
This also allows them to pop a couple fuses and re-purpose marginal would-have-been high end parts by blocking out the broken parts. They did this back in the 9500/9700 days, I don't see why they wouldn't want to do it now.
You might want to put "helper combustion chambers" along it periodically to boost and smooth the acceleration if you want to launch live stuff though.
I had thought about that -- I imagine irises every so often within the bore, which can close off to shorten the space behind the projectile. Then the gun can be fired more than once on the same launch without having the bulk of the energy go backward.
Speaker wiring should be at a minimum, shield from external signals and crosstalk. I used to 100+ feet of speaker wire in my home. It used to pick up transmissions of some sort, meaning I could hear audio from the speakers with the stereo turned off. I never could figure out exactly what I was hearing, but it was clearly words of some sort (actually if some one could shed some light on this I would be grateful).
Your terrorist neighbor was running a numbers station, obviously, and you are a terrorist sympathizer for not reporting it!
Seriously, I bet it was just passing CB radios, or maybe old-school VHF cordless phones.
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You think they haven't already sent it to other parties for "backup"? Knowing the sensitivity of the information, and that agents are prepared to take take extra-legal action against them, they would be stupid not to share it before announcing they have it. It's one of those "in the event of my demise" situations.
However, the people to whom they entrusted the information will sit on it as requested, if they ever want to be given the same consideration in the future.
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Like we don't already punch holes in the ears of livestock to put tags on them? Pigs would be a better analogue, and tastier too.
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That is true, because there is no physical difference in the drives. One has been tested as reliable with RLL, and the other has not. That's the only difference between an ST-225 and an ST-238R. Both will work with either kind of controller, but the ST-225 was not tested for it. At this point in the hardware lifecycle, I hardly think it matters.
I find it striking how much Figure 8 in the PDF, showing the location of single-bit faults, resembles the acoustic power spectrum of something behaving like a closed tube. I see clear odd numbered partials and weak even numbered partials, with a missing fundamental. I would not be surprised if this distribution turns out to be connected to the exact timing of the attacks. Sweeping the timing of the attacks may cause other bits to be affected.
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Hinder communications, this does. Prevent them, it does not. It just makes everyone sound like Yoda to the other dialects.
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Not RLL, FM/MFM only. RLL converts a string of bits into a longer but physically easier string of bits so it can pack in more effective density. Unfortunately, you've already lost control of the bits on the drive at this point.
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Whoops, looks like my information was a decade out of date. Apparently the ceiling effect and 2D6 saturation have since been demonstrated to be fallacious. The only part that IS true is the poor morphine conversion efficiency.
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No, codeine has a ceiling effect. Codeine itself does very little, it has to be converted to morphine by the action of enzyme CYP2D6 in the liver to do its job (and this only at about 10% efficiency). Somewhere around 150 mg of codeine, the 2D6 system is saturated and adding more codeine means it gets processed by other means. The other metabolic pathways do not lead to morphine. At best, they lead to apomorphine, which makes you sick and gives you a hard-on. Codeine is inherently self-limiting, and really can use the help of the acetaminophen.
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It's all because the Peruvians chase their earthquakes away! Where are they going to go? Chile, of course! Superstition seems to be protecting Peru, but at what cost to their neighbors?
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Since this vaguely resembles Lent, I think we should precede it with "Swear Like A Sailor" day on February 28 (or 29). I bet this inversion would prove more popular than the original event, just like most people going to Mardi Gras have no interest in Lent, just the massive party.
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This could be wonderful for socialization. Imagine this from a kid's perspective. On a bus, you get to socialize with whoever is seated close to you, and not do much else but horseplay. If you could instead spend that time to do homework, you gain the same amount of free time at home to socialize with the people you LIKE (who may or may not be the same people as you sat with on the bus), and *gasp* maybe even go outside and play!
More likely though it'll get used to play networked games with or against each other. That's still not a bad thing though, since that is likely something you'd do when you got home anyhow.
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The wifi on the bus goes up and down,
Up and down, up and down.
The wifi on the bus goes up and down,
All through the town!
</sing>
Seriously though, will we get this on city buses and trains? And the stations? This could considerably encourage the use of public transportation at a fairly low cost to cities.
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I tried, but the machine elves kept laughing at me. DMT, at least smoked, does not last very long. In the form of ayahuasca, it can go on for hours.
Don't forget 2-CB (and relatives), mescaline, and peyote for this kind of effect, though they are phenethylamines rather than tryptamines. Some phenethylamines have a decidedly speedy edge (after all, amphetamines are phenethylamines) but other ones are much more laid back. Not all of them cause E-dick either. 2-CB sure as hell doesn't.
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Every student that can borrow binoculars, SHOULD. For one thing, it gives kids something to do when it's not their turn. For another, one of the students might spot a target through the binoculars that is worth scope time. They're going to point out to each other things they think are cool, ask them to tell you too. Be prepared to answer some "what is that?" questions you may not know the answer to, since they'll be able to scan a lot more sky than you will.
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or 3) change the requirements and declare Vermont Yankee to be in compliance with the rules that were rewritten specifically for them.
This is made a bit more difficult by the fact that the regulations in question are those of the EPA, not the NRC, but you have to admit the idea is at least plausible.
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I was lucky enough to have my mother tell me "if you get disciplined or suspended for defending yourself, you won't hear a word about it from me." Unfortunately I went somewhat overboard and when I would snap and go off on someone, I would do it thoroughly. I picked up some scars. They picked up broken noses and missing teeth.
To this day I am reluctant to get drawn into a conflict because once that switch flips, it is all over. I see red, and I will not stop until the other guy is not getting up, or his friends drag him away, or someone restrains me. I will wait for the other guy to make a move, but once he does it's all about making sure he is no longer a threat -- whatever it takes.
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Duh. Depressed people generally want to avoid social interaction, or take it in short bursts at their own pace as it suits them. The Internet is perfect for this. The excessive time spent online is a symptom, not a cause.
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If energy is cheap, so is the type of chemistry they use. Given adequate energy input, that gasoline can be made into something more useful (like a heavier fraction). This may make oil companies evolve, but it won't kill them. It also will make their profits less visible, as people will not buy fuel. They'll buy things made of petrochemicals but will not directly associate the prices of those goods with the price of the raw materials.
Oil companies are manufacturing and distributing organic chemicals made in vast quantities. The end use is not really important to them, people just have to buy the stuff. It doesn't matter if that's in the form of gas, fertilizer, or Barbie dolls.
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Oil isn't going out of style. We'll just use it in a more productive way -- to MAKE STUFF instead of burning it.
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Sure there is. Scan it or photocopy it before you erase it. If these get popular enough, scanners will be made smart enough to deal with the low contrast (grayish background) and white-on-black with a single button. Obviously it's not hard to do in software.
It could obviously be better if the device could scan itself, but there is a workaround for now.
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Also is he plotting this based on potentially spoofed IP addresses? I'm thinking not just a botnet, but a botnet that doesn't care if it's getting packets back or not. It may not be every country in the world, just a bunch of random IPs coming from zombies which may (or may not) be in far-flung places.
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I bet it was your run of the mill social engineering. Someone on the attacking side befriended someone on the inside and either coaxed the information out, or just waited until they mentioned it in passing. Once they knew who to target, they could then pump this employee to see if the attack was having any effect, from the perspective of an insider.
It could be a Facebook friend, it could be a normal face-to-face friend, or it might be a "swallow". Governments certainly use this method of social engineering, but I would be quite surprised if companies do not do it as well.
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This also allows them to pop a couple fuses and re-purpose marginal would-have-been high end parts by blocking out the broken parts. They did this back in the 9500/9700 days, I don't see why they wouldn't want to do it now.
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I had thought about that -- I imagine irises every so often within the bore, which can close off to shorten the space behind the projectile. Then the gun can be fired more than once on the same launch without having the bulk of the energy go backward.
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Your terrorist neighbor was running a numbers station, obviously, and you are a terrorist sympathizer for not reporting it!
Seriously, I bet it was just passing CB radios, or maybe old-school VHF cordless phones.
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