Sex ed helped with one of my engineering jobs. In fact, we got special training during a 1 week course. I still have the certificate. We even had dirty pictures on the wall. Friends from other divisions would freak when they visited my cubicle. I was lucky. My job dealt with OB/GYN and breast cancer (lots of drawings of boobs on my cubicle walls).
Another division dealt with enlarged prostates! No body liked visiting their cubicles. Pictures of wangs and needles. Shudder!
Similar story: I slept under the gun rack at my grandparents. People talk about sleeping with a pistol under the pillow, but I had more firepower and ammo with nearly the same convenience.
Yet I never touched them. I was told not to and that was that. My brother and I weren't allowed to handle guns until late teens (probably because Granddad didn't want to have to clean them after firing them). But we were taught proper gun handling any time we had a cap gun or water pistol.
The discussion about single point login got me thinking. Rather than having some server out there become a single point of failure, how about a device you carry with you that stores the multitude of logins and passwords? Smart phones seem capable of just that.
Has anyone come across using NFC on a phone as a login/password authentication method? Store all of your login and passwords on the phone. Then when prompted for login info (website, laptop login, etc), you use your phone.
Yeah, a whole new security nightmare. But the idea still appeals to me.
There are two types of range extension: 1) Continue to drive normally for a couple hundred miles 2) Limp along at reduced speed until you get to a charge station
#1 is the ideal solution, but much harder to do.
#2 would let you use more of your weight and space budget for batteries and motor. Not a great solution when you might only get 10HP. But you can at least alleviate "range anxiety" and off-the-shelf AC systems can be found for $1-2k (wire it straight to your charging system?).
Sounds novel (I bet Doc Johnson doesn't have that) and could be patentable. But I doubt you'll make much money. Probably because of the chance for paper cuts.
I've often thought this is a great idea, but would add a few things.
1) PC/Software to print scantron sheet. Have it print the bubbles in one column and the name voted for in a second. Makes all of the "dots" consistent and provides a quick visual check.
2) Allow voters to self scan ballots at a review machine. This allows voters to confirm their ballot is being read correctly.
3) Provide a way for 3rd parties to use their machines with their own software during recounts (i.e. a recount could be done by election officials, Dems and Reps. But machines are run by election officials.)
Actually, that's why they migrated into Roman lands. They wanted to become Romans. Rome was seen as wealthy and prosperous, even late in it's existence. Many of the invasions were of large groups that were tired of being kept on the margins. They decided to force their way into Rome.
A great analogy I heard once compared the barbarian hordes invading Rome to Okies invading California.
The term 3rd world does not apply before 1947. If you want to extend the terminology before then, the US (and the colonies before that) would still be 1st world (e.g. aligned with capitalism).
There was also no rip off. Same as today, patents only apply where the inventor has applied for them. If there is no patent, it's not a rip off. Since few people apply for patents in, say Chad, it's not a rip off to make and sell all sorts of things there. In other words, you can't rip of Intellectual Property where it isn't property.
Trade secrets are just that: secrets. It is the responsibility of the trade secret holder to keep it a secret. Which is why patents are useful. The US made use of all sorts of acquired technology. But if it wasn't kept secret, then it wasn't a trade secret.
Lastly, most of history consists of nations with workable economies that never ripped off any IP. They might only be agrarian, but they didn't have to rip off any IP to get a workable economy.
I was rather disappointed by Redshirts. It started off well. But about 1/2 through, the deux ex machina showed up. And not a very good one. I know that is sort of the point of the book (there are a couple levels of parody). But it made the story arc peak too soon. The rest was a chore.
At least that's one person's opinion. Other Scalzi books I'd happily reread. Not this one.
And like the Do Not Call list, this one would surely have exceptions that politicians, charities, and companies you've dealt with in the last year could ignore.
I'm not sure how I feel about a charity participating in an extrajudicial execution.
That makes it even funnier. Someone who proclaims that paying attention to basketball is stupid cites the size of the ball's circumference... accurately.
I'm ambivalent about pro ball. But that original comment was just too hilarious to let pass. Learning it could be interpreted to be even funnier than it originally appeared is priceless.
Check out the book The Hot Zone, by Richard Preston. It reads like fiction, but is non-fiction about several ebola outbreaks. Including one at a primate facility in Reston Virginia.
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Dialysis was already governed by the FDA as a device and through drug regulations. The machines are devices, the dialysate is a chemical formulation.
I'm trying really hard not to call you a dumbass. Yes, I will take the higher ground and not call you a dumbass.
Sex ed helped with one of my engineering jobs. In fact, we got special training during a 1 week course. I still have the certificate. We even had dirty pictures on the wall. Friends from other divisions would freak when they visited my cubicle. I was lucky. My job dealt with OB/GYN and breast cancer (lots of drawings of boobs on my cubicle walls).
Another division dealt with enlarged prostates! No body liked visiting their cubicles. Pictures of wangs and needles. Shudder!
Oh, and I used algebra too.
He's referring to London Fog mythology.
Similar story: I slept under the gun rack at my grandparents. People talk about sleeping with a pistol under the pillow, but I had more firepower and ammo with nearly the same convenience.
Yet I never touched them. I was told not to and that was that. My brother and I weren't allowed to handle guns until late teens (probably because Granddad didn't want to have to clean them after firing them). But we were taught proper gun handling any time we had a cap gun or water pistol.
The discussion about single point login got me thinking. Rather than having some server out there become a single point of failure, how about a device you carry with you that stores the multitude of logins and passwords? Smart phones seem capable of just that.
Has anyone come across using NFC on a phone as a login/password authentication method? Store all of your login and passwords on the phone. Then when prompted for login info (website, laptop login, etc), you use your phone.
Yeah, a whole new security nightmare. But the idea still appeals to me.
There are two types of range extension:
1) Continue to drive normally for a couple hundred miles
2) Limp along at reduced speed until you get to a charge station
#1 is the ideal solution, but much harder to do.
#2 would let you use more of your weight and space budget for batteries and motor. Not a great solution when you might only get 10HP. But you can at least alleviate "range anxiety" and off-the-shelf AC systems can be found for $1-2k (wire it straight to your charging system?).
Sounds novel (I bet Doc Johnson doesn't have that) and could be patentable. But I doubt you'll make much money. Probably because of the chance for paper cuts.
Not quite zero. Plank time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck_time
Now I have "Can't time this!" set to the music of MC Hammer in my head.
I believe this system is intended to create high pressures needed for fusion. The high temperatures of the surface are to create a shock wave.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inertial_confinement_fusion#ICF_mechanism_of_action
We'll chalk it up to information pollution.
There's a difference?
But how do you feel about your keyboard?
The designer drug part sounds interesting. But there might be some drawbacks.
http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/update-all-drug-olympics/1198068/
I've often thought this is a great idea, but would add a few things.
1) PC/Software to print scantron sheet. Have it print the bubbles in one column and the name voted for in a second. Makes all of the "dots" consistent and provides a quick visual check.
2) Allow voters to self scan ballots at a review machine. This allows voters to confirm their ballot is being read correctly.
3) Provide a way for 3rd parties to use their machines with their own software during recounts (i.e. a recount could be done by election officials, Dems and Reps. But machines are run by election officials.)
and they audited the crap out of it. And the audit turned up all sorts of weird stuff.
What's done with audit results afterwards is a different matter.
Actually, that's why they migrated into Roman lands. They wanted to become Romans. Rome was seen as wealthy and prosperous, even late in it's existence. Many of the invasions were of large groups that were tired of being kept on the margins. They decided to force their way into Rome.
A great analogy I heard once compared the barbarian hordes invading Rome to Okies invading California.
The term 3rd world does not apply before 1947. If you want to extend the terminology before then, the US (and the colonies before that) would still be 1st world (e.g. aligned with capitalism).
There was also no rip off. Same as today, patents only apply where the inventor has applied for them. If there is no patent, it's not a rip off. Since few people apply for patents in, say Chad, it's not a rip off to make and sell all sorts of things there. In other words, you can't rip of Intellectual Property where it isn't property.
Trade secrets are just that: secrets. It is the responsibility of the trade secret holder to keep it a secret. Which is why patents are useful. The US made use of all sorts of acquired technology. But if it wasn't kept secret, then it wasn't a trade secret.
Lastly, most of history consists of nations with workable economies that never ripped off any IP. They might only be agrarian, but they didn't have to rip off any IP to get a workable economy.
Folsom Prison had to give up on Cash ever coming back as of 2003. Now it's just cigarettes.
I've got a question: Will you catch more hell at an Apple store asking for an iPad in Farsi or a Nexus in English?
I was rather disappointed by Redshirts. It started off well. But about 1/2 through, the deux ex machina showed up. And not a very good one. I know that is sort of the point of the book (there are a couple levels of parody). But it made the story arc peak too soon. The rest was a chore.
At least that's one person's opinion. Other Scalzi books I'd happily reread. Not this one.
And like the Do Not Call list, this one would surely have exceptions that politicians, charities, and companies you've dealt with in the last year could ignore.
I'm not sure how I feel about a charity participating in an extrajudicial execution.
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That makes it even funnier. Someone who proclaims that paying attention to basketball is stupid cites the size of the ball's circumference ... accurately.
I'm ambivalent about pro ball. But that original comment was just too hilarious to let pass. Learning it could be interpreted to be even funnier than it originally appeared is priceless.
Thank you.
Sorry. Could you repeat that? The irony made me black out for a few seconds there.
Sorry. Now my brain is bleeding. Could you start over?
Check out the book The Hot Zone, by Richard Preston. It reads like fiction, but is non-fiction about several ebola outbreaks. Including one at a primate facility in Reston Virginia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hot_Zone