I had a "fixed" male cat "mark" a computer once. I'd left open the side of the case, lost every bit except the FDD. Mainboard, RAM, slot-one CPU, (long time ago), power supply, HDDs, case got all corroded, ugh. BTW it's females that go "in heat".
Chum them for a while. Put the bait in unset traps and feed them for a couple days, then surprise 'em. Their sense of smell is indeed awesome, but also they can learn to recognise and avoid virgin traps, or shun peanut butter if that always leads to death.
If the environment supports colonisers, they'll bring food in from elsewhere. Also, poisoned rats tend to emit odours until totally dessicated, so I'd avoid poisons. Just clear the space. Rats want to hide.
In the olden days, when I was a kid growing up in Livermore, the Sandia Guards were considered pretty damn bad-ass, for rent-a-cops, while the LLL guards were a bit of a larf. As an innocent visitor, you'd be inspected, detected, suspected, &c... Meanwhile employees tended to have some amazing shit stashed in their garages, and the local paper often showed visiting delegations of Russian scientists on tour. (Surely not in any "sensitive" areas.) I heard about the "Shiva" LASER project from so many different lab employees over the years, I figured it might be disinformation. ("If I tell anyone about his, I'll go to jail...blah-blah-blah") My Dad, a pretty credible source I believe, used to work on some giant fucking magnets that were...I can say no more.
Up at my folk's farm in Ashland Oregon, they have had several snowfalls this winter, and it's been below freezing several times, here by the banks of the San Joaquin. I have to put on a jacket sometimes. Yeah, it's been harsh.
It'd be nice to have a metric for tuner performance. Some number which we could base an intelligent decision on. What model did you get? I'd like to avoid it.
We Americans don't actually spell it Scots-Irish, you are referring to Scotsmen, perhaps? I googled whusky, it may be that my grandfather got that spelling from his old drinking buddy, Tim Spencer. Shoulda asked him about that.
So you believe that the system we are running will be viable in 50 years? I don't seem to have any psychic abilities, yet I recognize imminent failure in several key systems, (aside from any climate-change issues) which appear to have irreversible consequences for an unacceptably large number of our higher species, not to mention the possibility of making the biosphere unviable for our species as well. Since most of YOU are unsuited to agrarian or hunter-gatherer life, I'd suggest keeping up the good work. Just mind the contraindications and try to mitigate the harmful side effects of your existence.
The Christians try (?) to emulate The Christ. Anarchists strive (?!) for perfect morality. IMHO the Technological Man should look to the impact that neolithic humans had, and strive to preserve a viable portion of our planet suitable for the (soon-to-be) former flora and fauna of this planet.
Most corporations diversify, and the smart ones don't waste money maintaining their infrastructure. (Federal bailouts FTW.) If I had oil production revenues, I'd be plowing all my profits into tying up all the alternative energy IP and buying legislation to benefit from the coming switch.
What I first thought of, looking at the pix, was that we'd use this to scientifically test for the presence of really big sharks. Good luck out there, buddy.
I, for one, will miss our old incandescent friends. I plan to set up a perpetual bulb running on DC. Under-volt it and see how many consecutive years I can get. I wonder if that one still works in Livermore?
I'd run my page file on DRAM chips, if I could afford it. Serious applications might want a card that interfaces through the PCIe bus. I can't even afford to ask how much one of those costs.
They've updated the federal statutes, and haven't ever actually enforced the tax law. That would make too much sense, just taxing transfer. Buy stamps, like a hunting license or something. Vox populi sez stamp out this menace at all cost. I think most states jumped on the bandwagon and got a thumb or two into the plum. FUD FTW?
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woosh. I, myself, found "boring" to be the most amusing tangent of this whole discussion. YMMV.
I had a "fixed" male cat "mark" a computer once. I'd left open the side of the case, lost every bit except the FDD. Mainboard, RAM, slot-one CPU, (long time ago), power supply, HDDs, case got all corroded, ugh. BTW it's females that go "in heat".
Chum them for a while. Put the bait in unset traps and feed them for a couple days, then surprise 'em. Their sense of smell is indeed awesome, but also they can learn to recognise and avoid virgin traps, or shun peanut butter if that always leads to death.
If the environment supports colonisers, they'll bring food in from elsewhere. Also, poisoned rats tend to emit odours until totally dessicated, so I'd avoid poisons. Just clear the space. Rats want to hide.
In the olden days, when I was a kid growing up in Livermore, the Sandia Guards were considered pretty damn bad-ass, for rent-a-cops, while the LLL guards were a bit of a larf. As an innocent visitor, you'd be inspected, detected, suspected, &c... Meanwhile employees tended to have some amazing shit stashed in their garages, and the local paper often showed visiting delegations of Russian scientists on tour. (Surely not in any "sensitive" areas.) I heard about the "Shiva" LASER project from so many different lab employees over the years, I figured it might be disinformation. ("If I tell anyone about his, I'll go to jail...blah-blah-blah") My Dad, a pretty credible source I believe, used to work on some giant fucking magnets that were ...I can say no more.
Think of all the poor children that can now find the laptop of their dreams at the local pawnshop.
Passwords and credit info in plaintext, or plain ordinary personal info.
Which "sensitive foreign country"?
Up at my folk's farm in Ashland Oregon, they have had several snowfalls this winter, and it's been below freezing several times, here by the banks of the San Joaquin. I have to put on a jacket sometimes. Yeah, it's been harsh.
It'd be nice to have a metric for tuner performance. Some number which we could base an intelligent decision on. What model did you get? I'd like to avoid it.
Are they covering this? The only news I've found is from Ray Beckerman's blog, and on Slashdot.
It's not scrolling across the bottom of the newscast.
Its an obscure reference to TFA. Sorry, I know I shouldn't do that to you.
It'll be interesting to compare how the various Media Entities spin (or even cover?) this.
We Americans don't actually spell it Scots-Irish, you are referring to Scotsmen, perhaps? I googled whusky, it may be that my grandfather got that spelling from his old drinking buddy, Tim Spencer. Shoulda asked him about that.
So you believe that the system we are running will be viable in 50 years? I don't seem to have any psychic abilities, yet I recognize imminent failure in several key systems, (aside from any climate-change issues) which appear to have irreversible consequences for an unacceptably large number of our higher species, not to mention the possibility of making the biosphere unviable for our species as well. Since most of YOU are unsuited to agrarian or hunter-gatherer life, I'd suggest keeping up the good work. Just mind the contraindications and try to mitigate the harmful side effects of your existence.
The Christians try (?) to emulate The Christ. Anarchists strive (?!) for perfect morality. IMHO the Technological Man should look to the impact that neolithic humans had, and strive to preserve a viable portion of our planet suitable for the (soon-to-be) former flora and fauna of this planet.
Most corporations diversify, and the smart ones don't waste money maintaining their infrastructure. (Federal bailouts FTW.) If I had oil production revenues, I'd be plowing all my profits into tying up all the alternative energy IP and buying legislation to benefit from the coming switch.
from fantasy to reality. Perhaps there could be a technological solution to the coming extinction epoch.
What I first thought of, looking at the pix, was that we'd use this to scientifically test for the presence of really big sharks. Good luck out there, buddy.
Better than Hunley.
My mother's family is straight up Scotch-Irish from SE Kentucky, and from them I learned it as Whusky. Is that an older form or an affectation?
I, for one, will miss our old incandescent friends. I plan to set up a perpetual bulb running on DC. Under-volt it and see how many consecutive years I can get. I wonder if that one still works in Livermore?
1800 Gigs should be enough for anybody's porn.
I'd run my page file on DRAM chips, if I could afford it. Serious applications might want a card that interfaces through the PCIe bus. I can't even afford to ask how much one of those costs.
They've updated the federal statutes, and haven't ever actually enforced the tax law. That would make too much sense, just taxing transfer. Buy stamps, like a hunting license or something. Vox populi sez stamp out this menace at all cost. I think most states jumped on the bandwagon and got a thumb or two into the plum. FUD FTW?