For the first time in 13 or so years, I'm not admining a samba instance at home or work. Recently killed off the last samba share at home due to some VLAN changes. Mounted filesystems all go over the AFS, or the netatalk. I don't do the "vista" and microsoft thing in general, so that doesn't matter. The macs tolerate the AFS and love the netatalk. The PCs actually work flawlessly as AFS clients, much better than in years past. The unix boxes all use the trinity of AFS / kerberos / ldap, and pretty much, always have used that. Samba, wheres that go, in this picture?
Is there any reason to move back? or light up a new Samba so I could.... ummm
Unfortunately, utility companies have no incentive to prepare because the events are rare and they won't be held liable if things get really bad.
And any individual utility will be brutally punished by the market investors unless all the utilities increase preparations in concert. Don't worry, strong govt regulation will require that... oh wait.
Seriously though, unlike an EMP, you generally get a lot of warning and the flares generally don't last long. Even if you get caught, unlike EMP they ramp up slowly enough to make a controlled shutdown possible. If you get a truly amazing flare, you just shut down the grid and initiate full black start capability testing. Since the nations power EEs and the utilities PHBs have around six human generations experience at pencil whipping the tests and reports for black start capability, you'll probably have massive problems actually trying to do it. But its "not too big of a deal" compared to other catastrophes.
Standard/. car analogy is "black start" for a power plant is like battery starting a car instead of jump starting a car. Its basically never done. Coal and nuke plants literally cannot be black started, as far as I know, unless you cheat and park a diesel electric locomotive onsite, or a nuke sub just off shore with a long extension cord. Even hydro usually can't be controlled without hydraulic power.
I read the headline, and I'm like "Flare", Sun never had a server called Flare.
Sun, they were bought by Oracle, PHB heaven. PHBs and flare go together. You know, flare, like your uniform needs to have 31 pieces of flare on it. Didn't you ever see the movie office space?
If the flare had been directed towards the earth, what would have happened?
VHF ham radio guys all call in sick tomorrow to bounce signals off the aurora. Seriously. Every time there's a huge auroral display there is a distinct lack of ham radio callsign license plates in the parking lot.... Its like the worlds largest physics experiment, lotsa fun.
And don't forget the ticket price of around $8,000 for a seat on the Concord. Imagine how much seats would cost on a Mach 20 jet liner.
Might not be relevant to the problem space. Current economic goal is to destroy the middle classes at all costs. The lower classes won't care, because they'll never fly on an airplane anyway, subsonic, hypersonic, whatever. The only other social group left, will be the super rich who don't care about costs. The key is, can you build, maintain, and fill a hypersonic jetliner with passengers under those social / economic conditions? Probably not. In current similar 3rd world areas they're lucky if the subsonic bizjets don't crash too often, and they rely entirely on 1st world repair and maint infrastructure that probably wouldn't be around. I'm thinking... not going to be applicable.
About the time China gets her aircraft carriers built, debugged and they learn how to operate from them and what the hell to do with them, we might have drones that can deliver ordinance anywhere in the world in just a few hours.
The need for a carrier group to project power may well go by the wayside.
Cost per pound of ordnance delivered might still be won by the carrier.
Also you can spool up the assembly lines for ordnance faster than spooling up the lines for more space planes; although carrier assembly lines are even slower...
A.) Does that mean that life here on Earth most likely have been boot-strapped from meteorites? B.) Such compounds are so common in the universe that finding them floating in space is trivial? Thus leading to the idea of life being more common than we think.
A is probably wrong.
Talk to a biologist about the quality level of 100K-year and older DNA. The reason you can't clone ancient DNA from dinos, maybe even mammoths, is it decays too much from radiation/age/whatever in just a few zillion years, even in ideal conditions. In space the radiation and temp swings will be worse, and it'll have to travel even longer.
B is probably correct. However, I think there are probably a lot more worlds where the alpha predator is a microscopic virus or maybe protozoa at most, than worlds where the alpha predator is a smartphone using bipedal mammal. Worlds with lichens are probably much more common than worlds with giant ants.
Good, but, I think the main application will be DRM not data protection.
You get to checkmark "security" and checkmark "encryption" for the PHBs at sales meetings. Also the PHBs think "stronger" encryption helps, because they don't understand how the internet works (as soon as one person in the world breaks it / leaks it / steals it, its as if the whole world knows)
Its easy for R+D to test, just call a function name "drm_add_two_nums(a,b)" where before the testing servers are implemented, that function simply returns a+b. This also makes it easy to hack later on, just replace the baroque crypto subroutine with the testing subroutine that simply returns the sum.
Maybe you can convince the legal system that breaking an encrypted DRM system is somehow more heinous of a crime than murder, or at least worse than breaking an unencrypted DRM scheme.
You can't patent addition itself (well, actually, you can)... But you could patent a ridiculously complicated and inefficient way to implement addition. So its useful in patent wars, both offensively as a brick to hit others over the head with, and defensively as a way out to re-implement tired old DRM systems, now "all new", and also avoid patents and licensing fees on existing crazy patents involving addition.
You're confusing this with homeopathic computing, where the more you "dilute" the hard drive of a new PC by removing bloatware, the more effective the PC becomes.
So let's get this straight... You take a bunch of encrypted numbers, never ever decrypt them but somehow still add them together to get the right encrypted answer.
WTF???
No details in TFA but HOW does this voodoo work?
The key is probably how incredibly slow it operates. I could implement something as slow as their solution... What if you did BCD encoding of all numbers and had a lookup table that turned "7 aka binary 0111" into "1024 bit encrypted/hash". Then a big IBM 1620-ish table of hashes such that "this 1024 bit enum" plus "that 1024 bit enum" equals "another 1024 bit enum". It would of course be incredibly slow, much as reported...
Followed in about 6 months by a 2600 article RE-discovering the joy of known plaintext attacks, statistical analysis.
Did anyone else read the headline as "Microsoft Says Homophobic Computing Is Practical"..?
Nah I saw it as "homeopathic" which given the MS/PC rep, seemed quite believable.
Homeopathic computing is basically buying a new bloatware stuffed PC, and discovering that the more you dilute the hard drive by deleting bloatware, the better the PC runs. Needless to say, I stick to Debian or macs to avoid the bloat.
In fact, if you're contemplating buying a house in an HOA, make sure to look over all the crazy rules and regulations to make sure you're OK with them all
Its worse than that... a HOA makes you infinitely personally liable as a member for their dumb mistakes. So if they lose a multi-million dollar lawsuit, you as a fraction of the HOA get a share of that liability. And HOAs as a group seem to have a reputation for dumb decisions.
So you need to make sure anyone who could sue you is OK with how the HOA is run, not just you personally.
Homes outside a HOA always sell for more than equivalent homes inside a HOA. Always. Its just that in some areas, there are no homes outside HOAs. Whoops.
But doesn't an "inflationary default" apply to all bonds?
I think you missed the bit where the only way the US can pay off its bonds in the future is the printing press.
IBM / GE / Wisconsin Energy / etc at least theoretically are going concerns and have real world capital assets and real world revenue streams that could be used to pay their bonds. The govt... umm no. The corps could inflate, by purchasing congressmen via election contributions, but its much more indirect than just printing the money and handing it out which is literally the govt's only possible course of action at this time.
Also if, say, Mexico or Zimbabwe try to fire up the presses, with international trade, especially oil trade, being done in dollars, thats not gonna work. However, if the US, who prints the dollars used in international trade tries it... well no problemo. Other than crashing the market, crashing the economy, destroying the middle class, etc.
But I went into it knowing that this wouldn't be a good device for serious software development
That's the mistake. Serious software development is when you ssh to a cluster with a size / weight / current cost to replicate roughly the same as a mcmansion, the kind where you need at least three digits in the cluster member host names. Or you're connected to an embedded system that is wired up to a 500 foot long printing press. Or you're connected to a NAS where the number of terabytes has multiple digits, and the NAS requires three phase power wiring. Or you're connected to a build farm of 10 different architectures, paralleled, in a rack. Its not done "on a laptop". All you need for "serious software development" is a network connection and a working SSH client. On the other end of the scale, writing "hello_world.c" for intro to programming 101 doesn't require a $5K laptop either.
Now entering the 4th generation, I kid you not, grandpa or dad buys a new computer or new ham radio or ipod or rc car or heck even SMD soldering rig, the old one doesn't go in the trash, it goes to the kid / grandkid, who gives his to the next step down, etc.
Doesn't matter if the specs quoters or braggers believe it, my kids love using what was mine...
When I was a kid, I had a R-390, a SB-102, an absolute top of the line Tektronics oscilloscope with full set of plugins, etc etc, not because I was a millionaire kid in the 70s (I wasn't even born then), but because I was the grandson of a millionaire of the 70s and it was a decade or two later, more or less.
Helps with wifely interference too... I'm not buying a ipad for myself, I'm giving my son my old ipod touch with the 30 minute battery, and as part of the transaction I also happen to be picking up for myself a...
The only problem is, Thunderbolt is only 4x PCIe 2.0, so you won't be using this to connect modern, desktop-class GPUs to your laptop
My recent interest is hardware mpeg decoding to low resolutions like 1080 HDTV (I haven't owned a computer monitor smaller than 1600x1200 since the 90s, so HDTV does seem low res to me, both absolute res and especially by DPI).
I'm curious if "something like this" would have enough horsepower to be a mythtv frontend. My gut level guess is, "probably yeah". I love my mythtv system...
Google Books has focused on digitizing academic libraries. I would argue that books found in academic libraries are not necessarily representative of cultural trends across society.
This is just public posturing handwringing over being multicultural "enough". You wanna publicly wring your hands to get "diversity street cred", OK go wring your hands, but you don't need to actually engage the rest of us, you just need to strike the pose.
Come on, g.books has "fanny hill", which is not exactly the pinnacle of dry academic prose (to save some/.ers, its pretty good pr0n, sorta nsfw, search for it at home, to give you a cultural reference its like a very long format penthouse letters set in the 1800s). Its also got "punch" and some old amsci and just plain ole "books".
Note that we have very similar tastes in reading (err, not specifically commenting on "fanny hill" above, I mean in general), for example my ipad is stuffed full of project gutenberg goodies. In fact I'm about 50% of the way thru "a friend of caesar" by WSD. Which rocks, just like everything WSD wrote rocks, pretty much. And Xenophon rocks. And Herodotus rocks. And Thucydides rocks. etc.
I use it, love it, also love the freenet, but the problem is those are "another net" not "the net". They will help you transfer files past the iron curtain. They will not help you log into youtube and facebook.
The problem is almost exactly like trying to replace ms office with openoffice.org. Whiners will not be satisfied with "doing about the same thing", they'll used it as a whining point unless they can get it exactly the same down to the pixel and last decimal point.
The thing that impressed me the most, as well as dissapointed me the most, was that the CGI Caeser's acting was better than all the human actors.
Does anyone on/. know of any purely CGI acted movies? I'm not talking about anime, or even rotoscoped like "scanner darkly" but a movie where all the actors are "realistic looking computer generated human beings"? Like all tech, I'm sure the pr0n industry will implement it first...
> was it going to be a Sci-Fi film, or an action film?
As long as it's not a Syfy film!
I'm suprised the Sy Fi channel hasn't come out with "Rise: The planet of the Apes" (with the addition of a colon) in the same way that there was "Battle:Los Angeles" and "Battle Of Los Angeles". Or will we get Mega-Piranha/Shark/Gator/Crocodile/Octopus vs Dino-Ape/Monkey?
Wouldn't they have to cancel / rearrange the wrasslin' and ghost huntin' shows? That sounds like a lotta work.
Beer is actually good for your yard - especially if you have thatch. It also kills slugs.
Well, its sorta like composted barley, which is a grain, just like (lawn) grass.
I was implying a human processing stage before application, but just pouring it out on the ground could work.
The yeast at the bottom of the fermenter from my brewing days was spread under the bushes to get rid of it... The plants did not have any observable negative effect. (laziness results in more dumped on the closer plants, which were not any more or less healthier than the further away plants)
Sounds like a benefit, then. When I get a house, i'm installing astro-turf for my lawn. I hate mowing.
You're on the same path as I was many years ago. What I discovered along the way about astroturf:
Astroturf lawns literally stink from bird / animal waste, and try to turn themselves back into soil/turf unless you use almost as much water to clean them as you would to water a regular lawn, unless you live in AZ or TX or something where you'd practically need a waterfall to keep the lawn damp. So astroturf is only a net water win if you live in a desert and the HOA bans xeriscapes because its too cheap (legally enforced conspicuous consumption, etc)
Also astroturf is remarkably expensive. More expensive than most other outdoor groundcover at the time I researched.
If you're trying to avoid mowing, put in paver bricks if you like pulling weeds out of the decorative cracks between the bricks, or put in poured concrete patio if you like looking at random shrinkage / settling cracks. Also structures like decks kill most of the plants underneath them by shading.
The local govt building permit requirements and exception processes warp the market so much, its almost not worth discussing across political boundaries.
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Nokia is still in business?
For the first time in 13 or so years, I'm not admining a samba instance at home or work. Recently killed off the last samba share at home due to some VLAN changes. Mounted filesystems all go over the AFS, or the netatalk. I don't do the "vista" and microsoft thing in general, so that doesn't matter. The macs tolerate the AFS and love the netatalk. The PCs actually work flawlessly as AFS clients, much better than in years past. The unix boxes all use the trinity of AFS / kerberos / ldap, and pretty much, always have used that. Samba, wheres that go, in this picture?
Is there any reason to move back? or light up a new Samba so I could.... ummm
Unfortunately, utility companies have no incentive to prepare because the events are rare and they won't be held liable if things get really bad.
And any individual utility will be brutally punished by the market investors unless all the utilities increase preparations in concert. Don't worry, strong govt regulation will require that... oh wait.
Seriously though, unlike an EMP, you generally get a lot of warning and the flares generally don't last long. Even if you get caught, unlike EMP they ramp up slowly enough to make a controlled shutdown possible. If you get a truly amazing flare, you just shut down the grid and initiate full black start capability testing. Since the nations power EEs and the utilities PHBs have around six human generations experience at pencil whipping the tests and reports for black start capability, you'll probably have massive problems actually trying to do it. But its "not too big of a deal" compared to other catastrophes.
Standard /. car analogy is "black start" for a power plant is like battery starting a car instead of jump starting a car. Its basically never done. Coal and nuke plants literally cannot be black started, as far as I know, unless you cheat and park a diesel electric locomotive onsite, or a nuke sub just off shore with a long extension cord. Even hydro usually can't be controlled without hydraulic power.
I read the headline, and I'm like "Flare", Sun never had a server called Flare.
Sun, they were bought by Oracle, PHB heaven. PHBs and flare go together. You know, flare, like your uniform needs to have 31 pieces of flare on it. Didn't you ever see the movie office space?
If the flare had been directed towards the earth, what would have happened?
VHF ham radio guys all call in sick tomorrow to bounce signals off the aurora. Seriously. Every time there's a huge auroral display there is a distinct lack of ham radio callsign license plates in the parking lot.... Its like the worlds largest physics experiment, lotsa fun.
And don't forget the ticket price of around $8,000 for a seat on the Concord. Imagine how much seats would cost on a Mach 20 jet liner.
Might not be relevant to the problem space. Current economic goal is to destroy the middle classes at all costs. The lower classes won't care, because they'll never fly on an airplane anyway, subsonic, hypersonic, whatever. The only other social group left, will be the super rich who don't care about costs. The key is, can you build, maintain, and fill a hypersonic jetliner with passengers under those social / economic conditions? Probably not. In current similar 3rd world areas they're lucky if the subsonic bizjets don't crash too often, and they rely entirely on 1st world repair and maint infrastructure that probably wouldn't be around. I'm thinking... not going to be applicable.
Maybe the worlds most expensive troop transport?
About the time China gets her aircraft carriers built, debugged and they learn how to operate from them and what the hell to do with them, we might have drones that can deliver ordinance anywhere in the world in just a few hours.
The need for a carrier group to project power may well go by the wayside.
Cost per pound of ordnance delivered might still be won by the carrier.
Also you can spool up the assembly lines for ordnance faster than spooling up the lines for more space planes; although carrier assembly lines are even slower...
lol, what? That would be a table of size 2^1024 * 2^1024 = 2^2048, almost a hundred googols.
Sparse table. Almost like a one time pad, except probably not as good.
Imagine salting each digit with a 16 bit number... that table size is somewhat more reasonable.
Now a 16 bit salt means fundamentally you're only got 16 bit security, sorta, but...
A.) Does that mean that life here on Earth most likely have been boot-strapped from meteorites?
B.) Such compounds are so common in the universe that finding them floating in space is trivial? Thus leading to the idea of life being more common than we think.
A is probably wrong.
Talk to a biologist about the quality level of 100K-year and older DNA. The reason you can't clone ancient DNA from dinos, maybe even mammoths, is it decays too much from radiation/age/whatever in just a few zillion years, even in ideal conditions. In space the radiation and temp swings will be worse, and it'll have to travel even longer.
B is probably correct. However, I think there are probably a lot more worlds where the alpha predator is a microscopic virus or maybe protozoa at most, than worlds where the alpha predator is a smartphone using bipedal mammal. Worlds with lichens are probably much more common than worlds with giant ants.
Good, but, I think the main application will be DRM not data protection.
You get to checkmark "security" and checkmark "encryption" for the PHBs at sales meetings. Also the PHBs think "stronger" encryption helps, because they don't understand how the internet works (as soon as one person in the world breaks it / leaks it / steals it, its as if the whole world knows)
Its easy for R+D to test, just call a function name "drm_add_two_nums(a,b)" where before the testing servers are implemented, that function simply returns a+b. This also makes it easy to hack later on, just replace the baroque crypto subroutine with the testing subroutine that simply returns the sum.
Maybe you can convince the legal system that breaking an encrypted DRM system is somehow more heinous of a crime than murder, or at least worse than breaking an unencrypted DRM scheme.
You can't patent addition itself (well, actually, you can) ... But you could patent a ridiculously complicated and inefficient way to implement addition. So its useful in patent wars, both offensively as a brick to hit others over the head with, and defensively as a way out to re-implement tired old DRM systems, now "all new", and also avoid patents and licensing fees on existing crazy patents involving addition.
You're confusing this with homeopathic computing, where the more you "dilute" the hard drive of a new PC by removing bloatware, the more effective the PC becomes.
So let's get this straight... You take a bunch of encrypted numbers, never ever decrypt them but somehow still add them together to get the right encrypted answer.
WTF???
No details in TFA but HOW does this voodoo work?
The key is probably how incredibly slow it operates. I could implement something as slow as their solution... What if you did BCD encoding of all numbers and had a lookup table that turned "7 aka binary 0111" into "1024 bit encrypted/hash". Then a big IBM 1620-ish table of hashes such that "this 1024 bit enum" plus "that 1024 bit enum" equals "another 1024 bit enum". It would of course be incredibly slow, much as reported...
Followed in about 6 months by a 2600 article RE-discovering the joy of known plaintext attacks, statistical analysis.
Did anyone else read the headline as "Microsoft Says Homophobic Computing Is Practical" ..?
Nah I saw it as "homeopathic" which given the MS/PC rep, seemed quite believable.
Homeopathic computing is basically buying a new bloatware stuffed PC, and discovering that the more you dilute the hard drive by deleting bloatware, the better the PC runs. Needless to say, I stick to Debian or macs to avoid the bloat.
In fact, if you're contemplating buying a house in an HOA, make sure to look over all the crazy rules and regulations to make sure you're OK with them all
Its worse than that... a HOA makes you infinitely personally liable as a member for their dumb mistakes. So if they lose a multi-million dollar lawsuit, you as a fraction of the HOA get a share of that liability. And HOAs as a group seem to have a reputation for dumb decisions.
So you need to make sure anyone who could sue you is OK with how the HOA is run, not just you personally.
Homes outside a HOA always sell for more than equivalent homes inside a HOA. Always. Its just that in some areas, there are no homes outside HOAs. Whoops.
But doesn't an "inflationary default" apply to all bonds?
I think you missed the bit where the only way the US can pay off its bonds in the future is the printing press.
IBM / GE / Wisconsin Energy / etc at least theoretically are going concerns and have real world capital assets and real world revenue streams that could be used to pay their bonds. The govt... umm no. The corps could inflate, by purchasing congressmen via election contributions, but its much more indirect than just printing the money and handing it out which is literally the govt's only possible course of action at this time.
Also if, say, Mexico or Zimbabwe try to fire up the presses, with international trade, especially oil trade, being done in dollars, thats not gonna work. However, if the US, who prints the dollars used in international trade tries it... well no problemo. Other than crashing the market, crashing the economy, destroying the middle class, etc.
But I went into it knowing that this wouldn't be a good device for serious software development
That's the mistake. Serious software development is when you ssh to a cluster with a size / weight / current cost to replicate roughly the same as a mcmansion, the kind where you need at least three digits in the cluster member host names. Or you're connected to an embedded system that is wired up to a 500 foot long printing press. Or you're connected to a NAS where the number of terabytes has multiple digits, and the NAS requires three phase power wiring. Or you're connected to a build farm of 10 different architectures, paralleled, in a rack. Its not done "on a laptop". All you need for "serious software development" is a network connection and a working SSH client. On the other end of the scale, writing "hello_world.c" for intro to programming 101 doesn't require a $5K laptop either.
households with children
Now entering the 4th generation, I kid you not, grandpa or dad buys a new computer or new ham radio or ipod or rc car or heck even SMD soldering rig, the old one doesn't go in the trash, it goes to the kid / grandkid, who gives his to the next step down, etc.
Doesn't matter if the specs quoters or braggers believe it, my kids love using what was mine...
When I was a kid, I had a R-390, a SB-102, an absolute top of the line Tektronics oscilloscope with full set of plugins, etc etc, not because I was a millionaire kid in the 70s (I wasn't even born then), but because I was the grandson of a millionaire of the 70s and it was a decade or two later, more or less.
Helps with wifely interference too... I'm not buying a ipad for myself, I'm giving my son my old ipod touch with the 30 minute battery, and as part of the transaction I also happen to be picking up for myself a ...
The only problem is, Thunderbolt is only 4x PCIe 2.0, so you won't be using this to connect modern, desktop-class GPUs to your laptop
My recent interest is hardware mpeg decoding to low resolutions like 1080 HDTV (I haven't owned a computer monitor smaller than 1600x1200 since the 90s, so HDTV does seem low res to me, both absolute res and especially by DPI).
I'm curious if "something like this" would have enough horsepower to be a mythtv frontend. My gut level guess is, "probably yeah". I love my mythtv system...
Google Books has focused on digitizing academic libraries. I would argue that books found in academic libraries are not necessarily representative of cultural trends across society.
This is just public posturing handwringing over being multicultural "enough". You wanna publicly wring your hands to get "diversity street cred", OK go wring your hands, but you don't need to actually engage the rest of us, you just need to strike the pose.
Come on, g.books has "fanny hill", which is not exactly the pinnacle of dry academic prose (to save some /.ers, its pretty good pr0n, sorta nsfw, search for it at home, to give you a cultural reference its like a very long format penthouse letters set in the 1800s). Its also got "punch" and some old amsci and just plain ole "books".
Note that we have very similar tastes in reading (err, not specifically commenting on "fanny hill" above, I mean in general), for example my ipad is stuffed full of project gutenberg goodies. In fact I'm about 50% of the way thru "a friend of caesar" by WSD. Which rocks, just like everything WSD wrote rocks, pretty much. And Xenophon rocks. And Herodotus rocks. And Thucydides rocks. etc.
You should look into I2P: http://i2p2.de/
I use it, love it, also love the freenet, but the problem is those are "another net" not "the net". They will help you transfer files past the iron curtain. They will not help you log into youtube and facebook.
The problem is almost exactly like trying to replace ms office with openoffice.org. Whiners will not be satisfied with "doing about the same thing", they'll used it as a whining point unless they can get it exactly the same down to the pixel and last decimal point.
According to the wiki page Opportunity has been on this road trip since aug 2008... Thats a good 3 years now.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endeavour_(crater)
The thing that impressed me the most, as well as dissapointed me the most, was that the CGI Caeser's acting was better than all the human actors.
Does anyone on /. know of any purely CGI acted movies? I'm not talking about anime, or even rotoscoped like "scanner darkly" but a movie where all the actors are "realistic looking computer generated human beings"? Like all tech, I'm sure the pr0n industry will implement it first...
> was it going to be a Sci-Fi film, or an action film?
As long as it's not a Syfy film!
I'm suprised the Sy Fi channel hasn't come out with "Rise: The planet of the Apes" (with the addition of a colon) in the same way that there was "Battle:Los Angeles" and "Battle Of Los Angeles". Or will we get Mega-Piranha/Shark/Gator/Crocodile/Octopus vs Dino-Ape/Monkey?
Wouldn't they have to cancel / rearrange the wrasslin' and ghost huntin' shows? That sounds like a lotta work.
Beer is actually good for your yard - especially if you have thatch. It also kills slugs.
Well, its sorta like composted barley, which is a grain, just like (lawn) grass.
I was implying a human processing stage before application, but just pouring it out on the ground could work.
The yeast at the bottom of the fermenter from my brewing days was spread under the bushes to get rid of it... The plants did not have any observable negative effect. (laziness results in more dumped on the closer plants, which were not any more or less healthier than the further away plants)
Sounds like a benefit, then. When I get a house, i'm installing astro-turf for my lawn. I hate mowing.
You're on the same path as I was many years ago. What I discovered along the way about astroturf:
Astroturf lawns literally stink from bird / animal waste, and try to turn themselves back into soil/turf unless you use almost as much water to clean them as you would to water a regular lawn, unless you live in AZ or TX or something where you'd practically need a waterfall to keep the lawn damp. So astroturf is only a net water win if you live in a desert and the HOA bans xeriscapes because its too cheap (legally enforced conspicuous consumption, etc)
Also astroturf is remarkably expensive. More expensive than most other outdoor groundcover at the time I researched.
If you're trying to avoid mowing, put in paver bricks if you like pulling weeds out of the decorative cracks between the bricks, or put in poured concrete patio if you like looking at random shrinkage / settling cracks. Also structures like decks kill most of the plants underneath them by shading.
The local govt building permit requirements and exception processes warp the market so much, its almost not worth discussing across political boundaries.