... just manage grading calculations and printing of report cards. The management of grades is currently done using spreadsheets...
I can see why that isn't working so well. I worked at a place where some rather tabular forms were generated and printed using Lotus 1-2-3, and no this isn't a "back in the 80s" story this was only a decade ago.
A better solution is spreadsheets on the backend, word processor to make the report cards look good, and a mailmerge program in between to shove spreadsheet data into the nicely formatted world proc doc all automated.
One semi-serious question is with the prevalence of grade inflation do you really need to do anything other than list the student name and sick day count, since apparently everything else will be all "A"s?
LCDs are so 2008. Is there any indium in LED monitors?
Indium "wets" glass so any screen with LCD pixel elements uses indium as some form of mask/plate/wiring. I'm not involved enough to know further details. Its not in the florescent tubes or LED or whatever your LCD screen uses for illumination. Even a reflective non-backlit display like an old fashioned wristwatch from the 80s would still have indium... I think.
From a marketing perspective LCDs with LEDs used to backlight seem to be marketed as "LED" whereas monitors using individual LEDs as pixels are marketed as "OLED" so a LED monitor uses indium but a OLED monitor probably does not.
Everything I've read about OLED is it really sucks, low res, short lifetime, UV fading, extreme cost. Maybe someday it'll be competitive and no one will use indum anymore.
Its the cost of recycling the circuit boards that has a negative value, so you don't get to drop an appliance off and receive a bit of cash.
Electronic appliances, yes. For some weird reason the local scrappers would pick up an old/broken kitchen oven and give you $25, at least that was the case a couple years ago. All other appliances were merely picked up for free. So buy a new "whatever", put the old one out, make a call, and in a couple hours or less a truck picks it up and hauls it away for free.
If you own a $50K pickup truck that gets 8 MPG you can load the appliance in the truck bed and deliver it yourself for a couple bucks, but its a financial loss if you only do one appliance at a time so...
I do know for a fact that you can make money by renting the home depot $19/hr rental pickup and packing it full of old apartment building appliances. The problem is the remodeling contractor made my buddy do all the removal himself, so his revenue minus expenses looked great but his profit per hour for the entire task from start to finish looked pretty miserable. Still, if you're a starving college kid looking for beer money your weekend time is kinda free/worthless so why not. I do not recall how much money exactly, but a truck bed full of avocado green kitchen appliances was high two figures. Home depot was angry because they prefer you use their truck to haul purchases from their store... whatever. Basically he disconnected appliances and hauled them out all morning and then around lunchtime rented the truck to take his daily haul to the dump. The fridges with food left in them when they disconnected power were pretty gross. Supposedly the freon in the fridges was worth extra money... individuals don't get paid for "donating" freon but he was bringing a hundred or so fridges, so he had a special deal I donno about.
Now I might be wrong here but memory serves that in Sweden the retailers are forced to accept a return of old equipment of the same kind when you purchase a new one.
Where I live if you sell oil you must accept returned oil. No charge, no asking for ID, no debate. They are allowed to whine and complain and try to convince you to buy stuff, but they are none the less legally required to accept oil. So yes, you can carry bottles of used motor oil to a 15-minute quick lube place, or a dealership, or service station, or even walmart, and demand they take it, and they will. Supposedly they can deny if you're "obviously" a business, so 4 quarts of 5w30 is obviously OK but I donno what happens if you walk in with multiple full 5 gallon buckets. Supposedly the amount of oil dumped in the environment has dropped to darn near zero since this was enacted decades ago. I haven't seen a oil sheen on the local river since I was a kid... so I tend to believe it.
Can a/.er verify for me if this is a state or federal law?
We just need to recycle them. Think of the markets being created here for reclaiming technologies.
Lets look just at indium, a LCD screen component also a "rare earth". I'm having serious difficulty figuring out the "ore value" of indium. If anyone can do any better please post.
First of all lets not argue decimal places when I'm just trying to get a handle on orders of magnitude.
So Indium sells for about $200/pound. The cost has been cratering as the economy has collapsed (don't give me a quote for 2007, OK) Some site claimed the cost of indium to make a monitor is about 50 cents. So each monitor contains about 1/400th a pound of indium. Or if we assume a monitor weighs 10 pounds, the monitor recycling bin at my local health food store contains "ore" around 250 ppm
Some USGS website claims that pretty good indium ore (real ore, as in dug out of the ground) contains a couple ppm of indium. And the separation and refining process is extensive, complicate, elaborate, and expensive so you can't argue monitor recycling costs are worse.
So a recycle bin full of monitors, treated as an "ore" is a better source of indium than any mine on earth by about two orders of magnitude. That's before you recycle the copper, tin solder, aluminum frames, and plastic case.
Since we don't recycle LCDs for the indium, as far as I know, some numbers above must be wrong. Can anyone find the mistake?
Again you really believe that? WOW! I figure he was a life insurance policy by Obama.
Like I wrote, he is a talker.. big time... easily the biggest talker of all 4 candidates. Lets say for the sake of argument that every 20 hours that he babbles he says one comedic blooper that belongs on twitter hashtag #shitbidensays or something like that. Its probably much higher number of hours, but whatever. Luckily for him the debate is only a tiny fraction of 20 hours, and everything is rehearsed and planned in advance unlike his weirdest off the cuff remarks, so statistically he's extremely likely not to screw up at the debate. Other than that he's pretty good at this public speaking stuff....
Ryan's trying to portray himself as mr budget, and he's got nothing else but tired tea party sloganeering, which is going to make his performance about as appealing as a watching a cross between a video taped accounting audit and a tea party rally, which is probably going to horrify all but the core who were going to vote for him anyway regardless of how much he screws up. It's just a dumb way to "play the game" for a veep like WTF are you thinking or maybe he's an idiot. Probably more likely, he was playing the game trying to get some kind of vaguely financial-related post in Romney's cabinet (probably a very good place for him...) and now he has to figure out a whole new strategy. Whoops.
Yea, your real independent. Democrats are golden gods
LOL astroturf much? "Just another crook from Illinois" "You can't trust him, he has bad ideas" "Babbles a lot" "a bit too lefty for my tastes" " just another elderly hippie" "he's got an obsolete outlook on the world" Yeah, obviously I'm angling for a cabinet post by kissing up.
Or the alternative interpretation of your remarks is the R's are so horrific that in comparison the D's are, relatively, "golden gods". Not in an absolute sense obviously.
If funding were fixed for a number of years, the theory goes, money could be spent more efficiently.
I can't figure out if this would encourage or discourage the "Gotta spend every penny this year or we'll lose the money permanently for all future years" behavior.
If a multi-year budget means you get $30M for a project, in total, spread across the entire project, then you don't have the headache of spending exactly 3 mil each year for a decade so it discourages wasteful spending at the end of the year. On the other hand if multi-year budget means that $3M is set in stone for all eternity then it encourages wasteful spending.
Since wasteful spending = votes I'm going to guess it is designed to increase waste.
I'd like to see an open, user-driven, distributed cloud where all data is encrypted at a low level, so participants in the cloud don't know what specific data is on their computer: just how much space it is taking up.
Freenet, which has been around since the 90s or so?
The killer with those architectures is pruning. How do you know when the info is no longer needed? Well you toss out the least recently requested data. This leads to really antisocial behavior like setting up two boxes who do nothing but request each others data over and over.
Another exciting architectural feature is random extremely high latency when fetching.
Finally ideally your fetcher would be content aware and failure tolerant. So if you're missing precisely one packet of a movie file, it doesn't just curl and die, but inserts a single blank frame. mpeg / whatever will work around it.
Summary: We've got what you requested, but we need 1) intelligent pruning 2) some kind of semi-intelligent pre-fetch algorithm 3) fault tolerant and content aware fetcher
I know for a fact you can use a GOOG voice number for two-factor. That's what I used. They technically advise against it, but allow it. Its just a backup for my authenticator app anyway. If I lose my phone, my paper password printout, access to my regular email, and everything else, then finally also lose or screw up my goog voice, then yes I'll be screwed.
In the very first paragraph, what does the first half about "Scared Straight" program not working have to do with the second half about Social Media legal risks??? I don't see the connection.
I think the implication was that propaganda backfires when applied to teenagers, so trying to scare them by introducing them to hardened criminals isn't a good idea after all.
In a similar way, exposing small business owners to propaganda would backfire, for example think of propaganda like Fox News, no small business owner could believe any of that ridiculous stuff, so I'm sure they all hold opposing opinions... oh wait... Hmm well maybe that doesn't work.
This might mean that "scared straight" could actually work to keep small businessmen honest. Might want to make introductions with convicted tax cheats a mandatory part of getting a business license... apparently it would work pretty well.
What about other legal risks not mentioned above (presumably also not mentioned in the book) ?
So... you google and facebook future employees as part of the hiring process, and inadvertently learn their age / sex / race / orientation / marital status / religion basically all the stuff you can be sued for. You can lose quite a bit of money if you make an employment decision based on a candidates religion, for example.
How bout tangentially related legal risks, like you sign a contract with groupon which backfires and would bankrupt the company. Your next step is... The internet enables some business models that might not be wise. Another example of unwise is the absolutely famous case from the BBS era where a pr0n BBS in a "free state" had horrible legal problems from a "unfree state" just because they were nationally accessible. I'm sure there are more modern examples. Technically there's nothing stopping you from selling wine / gun parts / ammo online, its just a legal minefield, that would be an interesting discussion.
How about dealing with internet-related outright scammers instead of the borderline above? Everyone with a domain name registered has gotten absolutely crazy weirdo postal spam, fake invoices, etc.
Finally similar to above q, how to deal legally with your ISP, what is standard and what is not in contracts, what is "unlimited", etc.
No citizen, in any country, without some form of security clearance has access to the sort of information that would make this worthwhile. Once they have the security clearance, passing on any of this information promptly becomes illegal.......
Come on AC try harder. See I have gathered data that shows that AC is a US educated chemist capable of performing plutonium extractions. Suddenly, instead of tweeting on a regular basis at ye olde oil refinery, AC has cut back on tweeting 99% with the occasional tweet right outside the gate of a suspected reprocessing plant. In fact known reprocessing plant workers tweet at the hookah stand and the restaurant and bazzar and gas station down the road from the plant all the time, just like AC tweets now. And AC's tweeting history based on time happens to precisely match the working shifts at the plant. Oh look AC took his resume off linkedin, maybe he isn't looking for a new job anymore. And although AC never directly discusses work, ever, looks like AC is really freaking busy at work and seems to be getting paid pretty well. Hmm I'm a little dense but maybe the plant has illegally expanded operations and hired AC on as a chemist. Times a thousand other plant workers.
It goes both ways. I bet a careful analysis of social media data in the areas surrounding certain US locations could tell you all kinds of interesting things about their employer that they don't want made public. Even nothing at all is a signal. Hmm property tax records indicate 20K houses but tweet traffic indicates 19K houses worth of tweet traffic... I'll take a WAG that the plant employs about 1K people and they have a policy not to do any form of social media. I now know the number of employees and at least one IT policy. Interesting... Imagine the fun you could have data mining an employment site like linkedin for ex-employees.
A system like this would be more or less completely worthless, even assuming they could make the physical hardware accurate enough
The article was pure blue sky, and you seem to be thinking of primary data gathering.
Here's how it would really work in the real world (probably). So you've got a off the shelf U-235 reactor. And an adjacent reprocessing plant. You'd like to make a nice Pu-239 based a-bomb (nagasaki style, hold the wasabi). But there's this pesky non-proliferation treaty. What to do?
Your "U-235" plant contains 90+% U-239 as a non-fissionable filler material. OK so holding a chunk of U-239 in a neutron flux results in the formation of Pu-239. And holding Pu-239 in a neutron flux results in Pu-240. For reasons beyond this discussion Pu-239 is a really great material for big kabooms and Pu-240 is virtually Fing useless for big kabooms.
So you make abomb fuel by reprocessing the fuel, extracting the yummy goodness of Pu-239, like every month or so, before it can be corrupted into icky Pu-240 by sitting in the neutron flux, and putting the leftovers right back in the reactor to cook some more. Now if you don't want to make a abomb the fuel rods can sit in the reactor for years and years before the burnup ratio gets too high and/or corrosion sets in.
At least some of the non-proliferation people actually know this, so if you have a reactor they freak out if you reprocess your fuel every month, but they're pretty chill if you reprocess only lets say 3 times per decade. Now rather than hiring one poor bastard to follow each of 1000+ fuel rods around in person, you track reprocessing materials shipments. Most of that stuff is pretty weird. Zirconium tubes, or thick foil to make your own. Strange acids to dissolve fuel. Strange organic solvents to extract Pu from U (which is actually somewhat tricky... simpler than isotopic concentration but harder than separating, say, iron from sulfur). to the ratio of "good guy" to "bad guy" consumables use (and presumably, consumables delivery) is something like 100 to 1.
So you do some analysis and your average hazmat semi driver posts 0.x twits per mile and 0.y twits per delivery. Also your average reprocessing tech tweets 0.a times when he's Fing off and 0.b times when he's actually working. The point is you can build a model from the safety of your home based solely on traffic stats to measure that 1 to 100 ratio between naughty and nice.
So suddenly tweets indicating hazmat truck traffic go up 100x, mostly whining about bad food out on the road or whatever it is truckers whine about when they've got work. Ditto chemistry techs. Now you know what they're up to. And you don't need something blindingly obvious like "yo homies chillin with a sep funnel fulla Pu239 save some hookah 4 ur bro". All you need is "hmm, thats odd, the chemistry techs stopped tweeting from home during 2nd shift, all at the same time... as if they're putting on an 'illegal' second shift... hmm" combined with "hmm, thats odd, whining about backaches from transfering 55 gallon drums of solvent went up 100x on average at the same time". combined with "hmm, thats odd, every whiny bored unemployed chemist in the country suddenly stopped tweeting, as if they all got jobs"
This is very much like the desktop publishing situation in the 80s... people whining that they can't express themselves without using 45 different fonts and 5 colors on a page... Newsflash is they can't express themselves... at all... a tech feature isn't going to fix that.
Hopefully a smaller product range will also allow for better after-market support. My phone is an Atrix, and I liked the hardware, but the software support has been lacklustre to say the least.
If a company operates on the plan that no support is OK, maybe you'll buy a new one with fewer or at least different bugs, then cutting down the product line isn't going to help.
Or, are we all that much more interested in creating a visible emotional bond with our house plants?
I think its an agribusiness lure, like spray individual plants with (organic?) insecticide if and only if a bug is detected on that individual plant. How you'd tell the difference between a raindrop hitting it and a grasshopper hitting it is unclear. Personalized bug spraying is an interesting idea.
The closest similar thing is the old "motion detector connected to water sprayer" thing that's been available for years which theoretically repels at least some feral housepets. So rather than spraying water on the dog when it tries to bury a bone in the garden, this gadget sprays bug spray on individual grasshoppers when they try to eat individual plants.
It seems inevitable as image chips, DSP chips, comm bandwidth all increase.
The next step is probably something like a robot chicken. You can tell I don't live on a farm, but I'm told that with some crops and some chickens you can release chickens into the field and they ignore the plants and eat the bugs off the plants and deposit uncomposted "fertilizer" all around the plants. Basically like feathery ladybugs but much bigger. A robot chicken with IR illumination could patrol your field 24x7 (plus or minus solar battery charging) using an image recognition library to stomp every slug or other pest that it sees. Not only that, but using dgps it could report which plant got munched on, and when, and by what. May as well enable a continuous data recording and analysis of plant growth too as it patrols.
...write half a sentence about who the hell this "Paul Ryan" guy(?) is supposed to be?...
A paragraph for each. I'm not going to vote D or R, so you can trust my analysis is non-partisan and pretty accurate guide to people who aren't paying attention:
Barack Obama = Vote for change, then change nothing. He would have made a pretty decent pre-neocon somewhat left of the road republican more or less in the image of Tommy Thompson back in ye olden days. Just another crook from Illinois. Basically a leftish conservative using the traditional definition of conservative not wanting to change much of anything. Despite being "commander in chief" has a strong historical record of doing whatever his masters tell him to do (D leadership, 1%ers, wall street). You can't trust him, he has bad ideas, but he never does anything, especially not if he promises it or campaigns on it, so that's OK.
Joe Biden = Probably the closest thing in national govt to a 99%er. Poorest member of the senate (still rich, but he's not rollin with the 1%ers). Babbles a lot. Most likely of all the candidates to have a twitter tag like "shitbidensays", because he's got the largest collection of memorable quotes (both good and very very bad). Fundamentally seems to be a good guy at heart (unlike the other 3 who are all crooks) but in practice a bit too lefty for my tastes. Fairly conservative, just another elderly hippie reliving the great society programs of the 60s. If he could be jolted out of the 60s and into modern era he'd be a pretty good leader, maybe not the best, but not bottom of the barrel like the other 3. You can trust him, but he's got an obsolete outlook on the world.
Mitt Romney = Gordon Gekko come to life, 1%er to the core. Another power hungry rich crook. Apparently wants to surround himself with bootlickers and quislings aka neocon Rs. Doesn't seem to have much of a message other than "I'm a 1%er now lick my boots, proles" alternating with "I'm not Obama". The hardest core evangelicals who run the R party are all in a tizzy about him because they now have to vote for what they consider a cult member, he's not "religiously pure" enough for them. You can't trust him and he's got big ideas, most (all?) of which are bad ideas.
Paul Ryan = 1%er wannabe bootlicker quisling originally from my home state of Wisconsin but left decades ago to become a wash DC insider so he really doesn't represent anyone other than whoever pays his re-election bills. Pretty much interchangeable with all the other 1%er bootlicker quislings. Wants to portray himself as a budgetary expert. In the traditional definition of liberal = wants to change things, he's the most liberal of the bunch. He hasn't actually done anything or stood for anything other than PR stuff (and he's "from my state" so I should know). In that way he's kind of a mystery man. The 1%er Manchurian candidate. You can't trust him and he's apparently got no ideas at all of his own.
I would anticipate Biden is going to crush Ryan in the veep debate just on general mental horsepower, which will be entertaining to watch.
How did this ever get +4 insightful? This is a perfect example of how the election is now the "D"s to lose. No one would argue Paul Ryan is king of the quislings a 1%er bootlicker to the core. But promoting outright laughable lies about the guy is a subtle way to push votes to the other 1%er supporting party, the "D"s. Negative campaigning has a way of backfiring, in fact I think at least some negative campaigning is strategic astroturfing by the "victim" to get sympathy.
The most interesting part of the story that is not being discussed is the contribution history / bribe record of all 4 candidates, prez and VP of Ds and Rs. All four have basically been hired by wall street to act as toadies to rubber stamp whatever the 1% want. So the election is already over, they won, and the 99% lost. I will not throw my vote away by voting for a D or an R and I strongly encourage everyone else to do the same. I wish this topic could get some airtime instead of sloganeering and negative campaigning.
I mean how hard I can shake it compared to the mass and energy of a tiny spinning particle, it could start spinning a different way, right?
LOL you wish. The story of chemistry and physics would be a lot different if that were true for protons. I've fooled around with proton magnetometers and NMR machines in chemistry lab and its not so simple to align proton spins. In fact its really freaking hard and energy intensive to align particle spins in general, not just proton spins. This would make an awesome basis for a hard sci-fi story, however. Someone please write a story about a steampunk NMR machine, so I can buy it. I think a Nikola Tesla who invented a steampunk NMR machine in 1870 would be much more interesting than yet another "vampire Tesla". My brain is feeling especially warped today and I'd also like to request a pre-quel involving a steampunk fourier transform infra red spectroscopy analyzer. I would have to think for a minute if there's any technical reason why Fourier himself couldn't have built a FTIR in his era. Hmm glowing charcoal as a IR source, and an early thermometer and lens arrangement as a ghetto IR bolometer, feeding reams of measurement data to hundreds of human clerks making calculations for years to generate each IR spectra, plus or minus an analytical engine or two... Hell a Beowulf cluster of analytical engines...
As for aligning electron spins like this article its still a huge PITA but the electromagnetic world depends on it. I can't think of any ferromagnetic material that can be (de)magnetized by waving it around... hammer blow level impact will realign the domains but just shakin it isn't going to do it. The reason why can be found on the wikipedia article for coercivity where basically the stuff you make recording media out of doesn't want to demagnetize without a serious fight.
It is not sensationalism because there are not a extravagant claims.
Its toward the end of the summary, where the only thing preventing spintronic deployment is the refresh rate was immensely way too high, now its merely too high.
As you listed, there's a lot more work to be done if this is ever deployable. Just lowering the refresh rate from laughable to ridiculous is not enough.
I think its totally appropriate. It shows the PR campaign is completely watered down and most likely so is the actual project, assuming there is any project other than the PR campaign.
Now if it were real, instead of a PR stunt, then it would be inappropriate.
Since the very first time I downloaded a torrent I've always used a command line downloader in a screen session. Now I use bittornado. I tried torrentflux but it seemed clunky compared to my screen solution. GUI seems a weird way to do it... your desktop has to stay logged in and powered up for days, maybe weeks, or you have to VNC to your server?
A quick apt-cache search torrent results in : bittornado ctorrent deluge ktorrent rtorrent torrentflux unworkable
torrent clients seem to be in the position where mp3 players used to be a decade ago... a large selection of "different" programs that basically do everything the same.
They're going to vote D no matter what you do, so the R can ignore them because they have no possible political use for them, and the D can ignore them because they're guaranteed votes as long as you make a speech or two. They're not politically important blocks.
None of the 95% of black people who voted for "O" will vote for anyone else, so why bother pandering to them. Now some white guys might change and vote for Ryan, thats why he's important.
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... just manage grading calculations and printing of report cards. The management of grades is currently done using spreadsheets...
I can see why that isn't working so well. I worked at a place where some rather tabular forms were generated and printed using Lotus 1-2-3, and no this isn't a "back in the 80s" story this was only a decade ago.
A better solution is spreadsheets on the backend, word processor to make the report cards look good, and a mailmerge program in between to shove spreadsheet data into the nicely formatted world proc doc all automated.
One semi-serious question is with the prevalence of grade inflation do you really need to do anything other than list the student name and sick day count, since apparently everything else will be all "A"s?
LCDs are so 2008. Is there any indium in LED monitors?
Indium "wets" glass so any screen with LCD pixel elements uses indium as some form of mask/plate/wiring. I'm not involved enough to know further details. Its not in the florescent tubes or LED or whatever your LCD screen uses for illumination. Even a reflective non-backlit display like an old fashioned wristwatch from the 80s would still have indium... I think.
From a marketing perspective LCDs with LEDs used to backlight seem to be marketed as "LED" whereas monitors using individual LEDs as pixels are marketed as "OLED" so a LED monitor uses indium but a OLED monitor probably does not.
Everything I've read about OLED is it really sucks, low res, short lifetime, UV fading, extreme cost. Maybe someday it'll be competitive and no one will use indum anymore.
Isn't there some left coast electronics store famous for taking broken returned items and putting them back on the shelf for resale?
I find it extremely likely that if you return a "broken" TV someone else will be buying it. Maybe as a "display model" as-is for 5% off.
Its the cost of recycling the circuit boards that has a negative value, so you don't get to drop an appliance off and receive a bit of cash.
Electronic appliances, yes. For some weird reason the local scrappers would pick up an old/broken kitchen oven and give you $25, at least that was the case a couple years ago. All other appliances were merely picked up for free. So buy a new "whatever", put the old one out, make a call, and in a couple hours or less a truck picks it up and hauls it away for free.
If you own a $50K pickup truck that gets 8 MPG you can load the appliance in the truck bed and deliver it yourself for a couple bucks, but its a financial loss if you only do one appliance at a time so...
I do know for a fact that you can make money by renting the home depot $19/hr rental pickup and packing it full of old apartment building appliances. The problem is the remodeling contractor made my buddy do all the removal himself, so his revenue minus expenses looked great but his profit per hour for the entire task from start to finish looked pretty miserable. Still, if you're a starving college kid looking for beer money your weekend time is kinda free/worthless so why not. I do not recall how much money exactly, but a truck bed full of avocado green kitchen appliances was high two figures. Home depot was angry because they prefer you use their truck to haul purchases from their store... whatever. Basically he disconnected appliances and hauled them out all morning and then around lunchtime rented the truck to take his daily haul to the dump. The fridges with food left in them when they disconnected power were pretty gross. Supposedly the freon in the fridges was worth extra money... individuals don't get paid for "donating" freon but he was bringing a hundred or so fridges, so he had a special deal I donno about.
Now I might be wrong here but memory serves that in Sweden the retailers are forced to accept a return of old equipment of the same kind when you purchase a new one.
Where I live if you sell oil you must accept returned oil. No charge, no asking for ID, no debate. They are allowed to whine and complain and try to convince you to buy stuff, but they are none the less legally required to accept oil. So yes, you can carry bottles of used motor oil to a 15-minute quick lube place, or a dealership, or service station, or even walmart, and demand they take it, and they will. Supposedly they can deny if you're "obviously" a business, so 4 quarts of 5w30 is obviously OK but I donno what happens if you walk in with multiple full 5 gallon buckets. Supposedly the amount of oil dumped in the environment has dropped to darn near zero since this was enacted decades ago. I haven't seen a oil sheen on the local river since I was a kid... so I tend to believe it.
Can a /.er verify for me if this is a state or federal law?
We just need to recycle them. Think of the markets being created here for reclaiming technologies.
Lets look just at indium, a LCD screen component also a "rare earth". I'm having serious difficulty figuring out the "ore value" of indium. If anyone can do any better please post.
First of all lets not argue decimal places when I'm just trying to get a handle on orders of magnitude.
So Indium sells for about $200/pound. The cost has been cratering as the economy has collapsed (don't give me a quote for 2007, OK) Some site claimed the cost of indium to make a monitor is about 50 cents. So each monitor contains about 1/400th a pound of indium. Or if we assume a monitor weighs 10 pounds, the monitor recycling bin at my local health food store contains "ore" around 250 ppm
Some USGS website claims that pretty good indium ore (real ore, as in dug out of the ground) contains a couple ppm of indium. And the separation and refining process is extensive, complicate, elaborate, and expensive so you can't argue monitor recycling costs are worse.
So a recycle bin full of monitors, treated as an "ore" is a better source of indium than any mine on earth by about two orders of magnitude. That's before you recycle the copper, tin solder, aluminum frames, and plastic case.
Since we don't recycle LCDs for the indium, as far as I know, some numbers above must be wrong. Can anyone find the mistake?
Again you really believe that? WOW! I figure he was a life insurance policy by Obama.
Like I wrote, he is a talker.. big time... easily the biggest talker of all 4 candidates. Lets say for the sake of argument that every 20 hours that he babbles he says one comedic blooper that belongs on twitter hashtag #shitbidensays or something like that. Its probably much higher number of hours, but whatever. Luckily for him the debate is only a tiny fraction of 20 hours, and everything is rehearsed and planned in advance unlike his weirdest off the cuff remarks, so statistically he's extremely likely not to screw up at the debate. Other than that he's pretty good at this public speaking stuff....
Ryan's trying to portray himself as mr budget, and he's got nothing else but tired tea party sloganeering, which is going to make his performance about as appealing as a watching a cross between a video taped accounting audit and a tea party rally, which is probably going to horrify all but the core who were going to vote for him anyway regardless of how much he screws up. It's just a dumb way to "play the game" for a veep like WTF are you thinking or maybe he's an idiot. Probably more likely, he was playing the game trying to get some kind of vaguely financial-related post in Romney's cabinet (probably a very good place for him...) and now he has to figure out a whole new strategy. Whoops.
Yea, your real independent. Democrats are golden gods
LOL astroturf much? "Just another crook from Illinois" "You can't trust him, he has bad ideas" "Babbles a lot" "a bit too lefty for my tastes" " just another elderly hippie" "he's got an obsolete outlook on the world" Yeah, obviously I'm angling for a cabinet post by kissing up.
Or the alternative interpretation of your remarks is the R's are so horrific that in comparison the D's are, relatively, "golden gods". Not in an absolute sense obviously.
If funding were fixed for a number of years, the theory goes, money could be spent more efficiently.
I can't figure out if this would encourage or discourage the "Gotta spend every penny this year or we'll lose the money permanently for all future years" behavior.
If a multi-year budget means you get $30M for a project, in total, spread across the entire project, then you don't have the headache of spending exactly 3 mil each year for a decade so it discourages wasteful spending at the end of the year. On the other hand if multi-year budget means that $3M is set in stone for all eternity then it encourages wasteful spending.
Since wasteful spending = votes I'm going to guess it is designed to increase waste.
I'd like to see an open, user-driven, distributed cloud where all data is encrypted at a low level, so participants in the cloud don't know what specific data is on their computer: just how much space it is taking up.
Freenet, which has been around since the 90s or so?
The killer with those architectures is pruning. How do you know when the info is no longer needed? Well you toss out the least recently requested data. This leads to really antisocial behavior like setting up two boxes who do nothing but request each others data over and over.
Another exciting architectural feature is random extremely high latency when fetching.
Finally ideally your fetcher would be content aware and failure tolerant. So if you're missing precisely one packet of a movie file, it doesn't just curl and die, but inserts a single blank frame. mpeg / whatever will work around it.
Summary: We've got what you requested, but we need 1) intelligent pruning 2) some kind of semi-intelligent pre-fetch algorithm 3) fault tolerant and content aware fetcher
I know for a fact you can use a GOOG voice number for two-factor. That's what I used. They technically advise against it, but allow it.
Its just a backup for my authenticator app anyway. If I lose my phone, my paper password printout, access to my regular email, and everything else, then finally also lose or screw up my goog voice, then yes I'll be screwed.
In the very first paragraph, what does the first half about "Scared Straight" program not working have to do with the second half about Social Media legal risks??? I don't see the connection.
I think the implication was that propaganda backfires when applied to teenagers, so trying to scare them by introducing them to hardened criminals isn't a good idea after all.
In a similar way, exposing small business owners to propaganda would backfire, for example think of propaganda like Fox News, no small business owner could believe any of that ridiculous stuff, so I'm sure they all hold opposing opinions... oh wait... Hmm well maybe that doesn't work.
This might mean that "scared straight" could actually work to keep small businessmen honest. Might want to make introductions with convicted tax cheats a mandatory part of getting a business license... apparently it would work pretty well.
Nice review, thanks.
What about other legal risks not mentioned above (presumably also not mentioned in the book) ?
So... you google and facebook future employees as part of the hiring process, and inadvertently learn their age / sex / race / orientation / marital status / religion basically all the stuff you can be sued for. You can lose quite a bit of money if you make an employment decision based on a candidates religion, for example.
How bout tangentially related legal risks, like you sign a contract with groupon which backfires and would bankrupt the company. Your next step is... The internet enables some business models that might not be wise. Another example of unwise is the absolutely famous case from the BBS era where a pr0n BBS in a "free state" had horrible legal problems from a "unfree state" just because they were nationally accessible. I'm sure there are more modern examples. Technically there's nothing stopping you from selling wine / gun parts / ammo online, its just a legal minefield, that would be an interesting discussion.
How about dealing with internet-related outright scammers instead of the borderline above? Everyone with a domain name registered has gotten absolutely crazy weirdo postal spam, fake invoices, etc.
Finally similar to above q, how to deal legally with your ISP, what is standard and what is not in contracts, what is "unlimited", etc.
No citizen, in any country, without some form of security clearance has access to the sort of information that would make this worthwhile. Once they have the security clearance, passing on any of this information promptly becomes illegal .......
Come on AC try harder. See I have gathered data that shows that AC is a US educated chemist capable of performing plutonium extractions. Suddenly, instead of tweeting on a regular basis at ye olde oil refinery, AC has cut back on tweeting 99% with the occasional tweet right outside the gate of a suspected reprocessing plant. In fact known reprocessing plant workers tweet at the hookah stand and the restaurant and bazzar and gas station down the road from the plant all the time, just like AC tweets now. And AC's tweeting history based on time happens to precisely match the working shifts at the plant. Oh look AC took his resume off linkedin, maybe he isn't looking for a new job anymore. And although AC never directly discusses work, ever, looks like AC is really freaking busy at work and seems to be getting paid pretty well. Hmm I'm a little dense but maybe the plant has illegally expanded operations and hired AC on as a chemist. Times a thousand other plant workers.
It goes both ways. I bet a careful analysis of social media data in the areas surrounding certain US locations could tell you all kinds of interesting things about their employer that they don't want made public. Even nothing at all is a signal. Hmm property tax records indicate 20K houses but tweet traffic indicates 19K houses worth of tweet traffic... I'll take a WAG that the plant employs about 1K people and they have a policy not to do any form of social media. I now know the number of employees and at least one IT policy. Interesting... Imagine the fun you could have data mining an employment site like linkedin for ex-employees.
A system like this would be more or less completely worthless, even assuming they could make the physical hardware accurate enough
The article was pure blue sky, and you seem to be thinking of primary data gathering.
Here's how it would really work in the real world (probably). So you've got a off the shelf U-235 reactor. And an adjacent reprocessing plant. You'd like to make a nice Pu-239 based a-bomb (nagasaki style, hold the wasabi). But there's this pesky non-proliferation treaty. What to do?
Your "U-235" plant contains 90+% U-239 as a non-fissionable filler material. OK so holding a chunk of U-239 in a neutron flux results in the formation of Pu-239. And holding Pu-239 in a neutron flux results in Pu-240. For reasons beyond this discussion Pu-239 is a really great material for big kabooms and Pu-240 is virtually Fing useless for big kabooms.
So you make abomb fuel by reprocessing the fuel, extracting the yummy goodness of Pu-239, like every month or so, before it can be corrupted into icky Pu-240 by sitting in the neutron flux, and putting the leftovers right back in the reactor to cook some more. Now if you don't want to make a abomb the fuel rods can sit in the reactor for years and years before the burnup ratio gets too high and/or corrosion sets in.
At least some of the non-proliferation people actually know this, so if you have a reactor they freak out if you reprocess your fuel every month, but they're pretty chill if you reprocess only lets say 3 times per decade. Now rather than hiring one poor bastard to follow each of 1000+ fuel rods around in person, you track reprocessing materials shipments. Most of that stuff is pretty weird. Zirconium tubes, or thick foil to make your own. Strange acids to dissolve fuel. Strange organic solvents to extract Pu from U (which is actually somewhat tricky... simpler than isotopic concentration but harder than separating, say, iron from sulfur). to the ratio of "good guy" to "bad guy" consumables use (and presumably, consumables delivery) is something like 100 to 1.
So you do some analysis and your average hazmat semi driver posts 0.x twits per mile and 0.y twits per delivery. Also your average reprocessing tech tweets 0.a times when he's Fing off and 0.b times when he's actually working. The point is you can build a model from the safety of your home based solely on traffic stats to measure that 1 to 100 ratio between naughty and nice.
So suddenly tweets indicating hazmat truck traffic go up 100x, mostly whining about bad food out on the road or whatever it is truckers whine about when they've got work. Ditto chemistry techs. Now you know what they're up to. And you don't need something blindingly obvious like "yo homies chillin with a sep funnel fulla Pu239 save some hookah 4 ur bro". All you need is "hmm, thats odd, the chemistry techs stopped tweeting from home during 2nd shift, all at the same time... as if they're putting on an 'illegal' second shift... hmm" combined with "hmm, thats odd, whining about backaches from transfering 55 gallon drums of solvent went up 100x on average at the same time". combined with "hmm, thats odd, every whiny bored unemployed chemist in the country suddenly stopped tweeting, as if they all got jobs"
And thats how you do it!
If Twitter was really based on an open source model, they would have fixed that 160 character limit a long time ago; It's a relic of a bygone era.
The identica people can't seem to decide on a limit.
http://status.net/2010/02/15/identi-ca-character-limit-results
http://status.net/wiki/Identica/web
This is very much like the desktop publishing situation in the 80s... people whining that they can't express themselves without using 45 different fonts and 5 colors on a page... Newsflash is they can't express themselves... at all... a tech feature isn't going to fix that.
Hopefully a smaller product range will also allow for better after-market support. My phone is an Atrix, and I liked the hardware, but the software support has been lacklustre to say the least.
If a company operates on the plan that no support is OK, maybe you'll buy a new one with fewer or at least different bugs, then cutting down the product line isn't going to help.
Or, are we all that much more interested in creating a visible emotional bond with our house plants?
I think its an agribusiness lure, like spray individual plants with (organic?) insecticide if and only if a bug is detected on that individual plant. How you'd tell the difference between a raindrop hitting it and a grasshopper hitting it is unclear. Personalized bug spraying is an interesting idea.
The closest similar thing is the old "motion detector connected to water sprayer" thing that's been available for years which theoretically repels at least some feral housepets. So rather than spraying water on the dog when it tries to bury a bone in the garden, this gadget sprays bug spray on individual grasshoppers when they try to eat individual plants.
It seems inevitable as image chips, DSP chips, comm bandwidth all increase.
The next step is probably something like a robot chicken. You can tell I don't live on a farm, but I'm told that with some crops and some chickens you can release chickens into the field and they ignore the plants and eat the bugs off the plants and deposit uncomposted "fertilizer" all around the plants. Basically like feathery ladybugs but much bigger. A robot chicken with IR illumination could patrol your field 24x7 (plus or minus solar battery charging) using an image recognition library to stomp every slug or other pest that it sees. Not only that, but using dgps it could report which plant got munched on, and when, and by what. May as well enable a continuous data recording and analysis of plant growth too as it patrols.
...write half a sentence about who the hell this "Paul Ryan" guy(?) is supposed to be?...
A paragraph for each. I'm not going to vote D or R, so you can trust my analysis is non-partisan and pretty accurate guide to people who aren't paying attention:
Barack Obama = Vote for change, then change nothing. He would have made a pretty decent pre-neocon somewhat left of the road republican more or less in the image of Tommy Thompson back in ye olden days. Just another crook from Illinois. Basically a leftish conservative using the traditional definition of conservative not wanting to change much of anything. Despite being "commander in chief" has a strong historical record of doing whatever his masters tell him to do (D leadership, 1%ers, wall street). You can't trust him, he has bad ideas, but he never does anything, especially not if he promises it or campaigns on it, so that's OK.
Joe Biden = Probably the closest thing in national govt to a 99%er. Poorest member of the senate (still rich, but he's not rollin with the 1%ers). Babbles a lot. Most likely of all the candidates to have a twitter tag like "shitbidensays", because he's got the largest collection of memorable quotes (both good and very very bad). Fundamentally seems to be a good guy at heart (unlike the other 3 who are all crooks) but in practice a bit too lefty for my tastes. Fairly conservative, just another elderly hippie reliving the great society programs of the 60s. If he could be jolted out of the 60s and into modern era he'd be a pretty good leader, maybe not the best, but not bottom of the barrel like the other 3. You can trust him, but he's got an obsolete outlook on the world.
Mitt Romney = Gordon Gekko come to life, 1%er to the core. Another power hungry rich crook. Apparently wants to surround himself with bootlickers and quislings aka neocon Rs. Doesn't seem to have much of a message other than "I'm a 1%er now lick my boots, proles" alternating with "I'm not Obama". The hardest core evangelicals who run the R party are all in a tizzy about him because they now have to vote for what they consider a cult member, he's not "religiously pure" enough for them. You can't trust him and he's got big ideas, most (all?) of which are bad ideas.
Paul Ryan = 1%er wannabe bootlicker quisling originally from my home state of Wisconsin but left decades ago to become a wash DC insider so he really doesn't represent anyone other than whoever pays his re-election bills. Pretty much interchangeable with all the other 1%er bootlicker quislings. Wants to portray himself as a budgetary expert. In the traditional definition of liberal = wants to change things, he's the most liberal of the bunch. He hasn't actually done anything or stood for anything other than PR stuff (and he's "from my state" so I should know). In that way he's kind of a mystery man. The 1%er Manchurian candidate. You can't trust him and he's apparently got no ideas at all of his own.
I would anticipate Biden is going to crush Ryan in the veep debate just on general mental horsepower, which will be entertaining to watch.
who wants to abolish Medicare and Social Security
How did this ever get +4 insightful? This is a perfect example of how the election is now the "D"s to lose. No one would argue Paul Ryan is king of the quislings a 1%er bootlicker to the core. But promoting outright laughable lies about the guy is a subtle way to push votes to the other 1%er supporting party, the "D"s. Negative campaigning has a way of backfiring, in fact I think at least some negative campaigning is strategic astroturfing by the "victim" to get sympathy.
The most interesting part of the story that is not being discussed is the contribution history / bribe record of all 4 candidates, prez and VP of Ds and Rs. All four have basically been hired by wall street to act as toadies to rubber stamp whatever the 1% want. So the election is already over, they won, and the 99% lost. I will not throw my vote away by voting for a D or an R and I strongly encourage everyone else to do the same. I wish this topic could get some airtime instead of sloganeering and negative campaigning.
I mean how hard I can shake it compared to the mass and energy of a tiny spinning particle, it could start spinning a different way, right?
LOL you wish. The story of chemistry and physics would be a lot different if that were true for protons. I've fooled around with proton magnetometers and NMR machines in chemistry lab and its not so simple to align proton spins. In fact its really freaking hard and energy intensive to align particle spins in general, not just proton spins. This would make an awesome basis for a hard sci-fi story, however. Someone please write a story about a steampunk NMR machine, so I can buy it. I think a Nikola Tesla who invented a steampunk NMR machine in 1870 would be much more interesting than yet another "vampire Tesla". My brain is feeling especially warped today and I'd also like to request a pre-quel involving a steampunk fourier transform infra red spectroscopy analyzer. I would have to think for a minute if there's any technical reason why Fourier himself couldn't have built a FTIR in his era. Hmm glowing charcoal as a IR source, and an early thermometer and lens arrangement as a ghetto IR bolometer, feeding reams of measurement data to hundreds of human clerks making calculations for years to generate each IR spectra, plus or minus an analytical engine or two... Hell a Beowulf cluster of analytical engines...
As for aligning electron spins like this article its still a huge PITA but the electromagnetic world depends on it. I can't think of any ferromagnetic material that can be (de)magnetized by waving it around... hammer blow level impact will realign the domains but just shakin it isn't going to do it. The reason why can be found on the wikipedia article for coercivity where basically the stuff you make recording media out of doesn't want to demagnetize without a serious fight.
It is not sensationalism because there are not a extravagant claims.
Its toward the end of the summary, where the only thing preventing spintronic deployment is the refresh rate was immensely way too high, now its merely too high.
As you listed, there's a lot more work to be done if this is ever deployable. Just lowering the refresh rate from laughable to ridiculous is not enough.
I think its totally appropriate. It shows the PR campaign is completely watered down and most likely so is the actual project, assuming there is any project other than the PR campaign.
Now if it were real, instead of a PR stunt, then it would be inappropriate.
What alternatives do you suggest?
Since the very first time I downloaded a torrent I've always used a command line downloader in a screen session. Now I use bittornado. I tried torrentflux but it seemed clunky compared to my screen solution. GUI seems a weird way to do it... your desktop has to stay logged in and powered up for days, maybe weeks, or you have to VNC to your server?
A quick apt-cache search torrent results in :
bittornado
ctorrent
deluge
ktorrent
rtorrent
torrentflux
unworkable
torrent clients seem to be in the position where mp3 players used to be a decade ago... a large selection of "different" programs that basically do everything the same.
he he he's not black, female, or even Hispanic!
They're going to vote D no matter what you do, so the R can ignore them because they have no possible political use for them, and the D can ignore them because they're guaranteed votes as long as you make a speech or two. They're not politically important blocks.
None of the 95% of black people who voted for "O" will vote for anyone else, so why bother pandering to them. Now some white guys might change and vote for Ryan, thats why he's important.