The problem is that the more complicated you get, the less it gets done. We have a central recycling area for our small town. Giant bins with clear descriptions of the material in large, friendly type.
While most people get it right (except the plastics which do get confusing), there is a significant number of idiots that don't understand the difference between plastic and glass, between steel and aluminum. Even when you have big ex-hard drive magnets for people to test the cans on.
And then there are the plastics. At least six types, many of which look similar. Most retail products do have the number stamped on the package. Somewhere. In a font that is all of 0.5 mm tall and blurry because it's actually stamped in the plastic. I doubt anyone over 50 can actually see the stupid things without some form of magnification.
Modern incinerators are so clean, they rarely even emit visible steam.
Why is the US so allergic to incinerators?
Dioxin and other ''invisible" nasties, perhaps? Those stable substances have to go somewhere. And putting them in the atmosphere, although a time honored tradition, isn't really a good idea.
And it might mean printing the damned recycle numbers somewhat larger than 0.5 mm. I really don't feel like getting out my loupe just to figure out which bin to toss a piece of plastic in.
Righto. Random off the cuff comment from Slashdot poster 2.52E6 trumps a decade of careful work by trained scientists in several countries.
Of course! However, if you're really serious, I suppose YOU could sit there in buttfuck Khazakstan and watch for North Koreans (careful, they're small) for several half lives. You'd even get free Potassium!
Part of that is the world is bigger. In the ''good old days" of Radio Shack, a supply of discrete resistors, caps, general purpose transistors (remember those?) and a dozen other things would get you by. Now there are dozens of PSU configurations, even for your generic beige case PC. And it gets much worse from there. Radio Shack can't keep an RS232 TTL level converter in stock - it would sell one a decade per store and finding a clerk that even knew you were talking about an IC would be a stretch. You need Digikey or Mouser for that sort of thing.
And so it goes. Actually, my local Radio Shack located at the end of the world has a reasonable supply of electronic stuff. My big beef is the quality. They carry BNC connectors but they're so flimsy they're barely useable. I don't mind paying $5 for a single connector (at least I don't mind much if I can get it right away) but I do get frosted when I strip out the holding screw because it was tapped by some drunk Vietnamese in a dark leanto.
But hardware stores are really the poster child for this sort of thing. Every rural town I've lived in has been infested with "True Value" chain stores. They sell absolute crap quality and have a pretty banal selection. Fine for a cheap 10/32 1/4 nut as long as you aren't bolting together anything critical. Even the stainless stuff they carry is ? Chinese crap - I've split nuts just with a 10 mm wrench.
The real killer with Amazon has been free shipping. Before, I would avoid buying a box of nuts or screws because of the shipping charge. With free shipping, it can be a real no brainer. And most stuff shows up in a few days. Given the breadth and depth of Amazon's catalog, local small retailers are going to have a hard time competing. That's bad in a lot of ways but until shipping charges rise (with oil price increases etc) to where Amazon can't keep up, it's the way of the future.
First, gene marker studies are unlikely to be tainted by 'toxins'. You have the gene or you don't. Dying doesn't give you more DNA. And yes, the Holy Grail is to use objective testing to tease out the determinant basis of a bunch of subjective issues (psychiatric diseases).
This is quite a bit different from detecting mental illness by analyzing your tweets (a tautology). It's more an attempt to find a molecular basis of why some people are twits and others not.
That's sort of the key. It's hard to say. If you successfully intervene, then the person doesn't commit suicide. If you don't they might. Most of the time, you can rank sucidality. Not all of the time, just like most things.
I don't think that this is going to lead to a 'suicide test' - it's rather early in the game for that. It will likely lead to more grant money in the short term and perhaps a better understanding of mood disorders in the long term. It's interesting that they focused on bipolar patients. The results may well not be generalizable to 'normal' depression, again, way too early to say. Bipolar patients (especially males) do have a higher lethality rate than so called unipolar ('normal') depressives. Is the the same mechanism writ large or something else?
The Holy Grail of Molecular Psychology is to reduce human behavior into a determinant system that can be manipulated. It will certainly help lots of people but of course opens up some interesting containers of slimy invertebrates (ie, politicians).
Probably end up with a small internal combustion engine generator of some sort feeding and electric motor. Shouldn't be too hard to muffle the noise if you can keep the RPMs down to a reasonable range. I'm not sure how you block the IR signature. Any combustion based motor is going to bright lite a FLIR system. Maybe the Canadians will get clever - use it to heat beer* (or is that just the English?).
*Beer is consumed, IR blocked by body and whatever insulation the human is wearing. Added bonus is that course becomes more random over time, confusing targeting systems.
And you're gonna be damned glad they have that technology when this new uber-smart network becomes self aware, taps into the local cable feed and decides that it better stomp out the human race before something really bad happens.
You'll definitely want a stealth snowmobile. Mark my words.
True enough, but it's simply publicizing something that likely happened a long time ago. How many people think that Wikileaks kept the file on a laptop in somebody's house? It's always been distributed (at least Wikileaks would be dumber than a politician not to do that).
They've just made it a public spectacle. That's all.
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The problem is that the more complicated you get, the less it gets done. We have a central recycling area for our small town. Giant bins with clear descriptions of the material in large, friendly type.
While most people get it right (except the plastics which do get confusing), there is a significant number of idiots that don't understand the difference between plastic and glass, between steel and aluminum. Even when you have big ex-hard drive magnets for people to test the cans on.
And then there are the plastics. At least six types, many of which look similar. Most retail products do have the number stamped on the package. Somewhere. In a font that is all of 0.5 mm tall and blurry because it's actually stamped in the plastic. I doubt anyone over 50 can actually see the stupid things without some form of magnification.
Modern incinerators are so clean, they rarely even emit visible steam.
Why is the US so allergic to incinerators?
Dioxin and other ''invisible" nasties, perhaps? Those stable substances have to go somewhere. And putting them in the atmosphere, although a time honored tradition, isn't really a good idea.
And it might mean printing the damned recycle numbers somewhat larger than 0.5 mm. I really don't feel like getting out my loupe just to figure out which bin to toss a piece of plastic in.
Nope. This is all plastic. If it were iron, we could recycle it much more easily.
Righto. Random off the cuff comment from Slashdot poster 2.52E6 trumps a decade of careful work by trained scientists in several countries.
Of course! However, if you're really serious, I suppose YOU could sit there in buttfuck Khazakstan and watch for North Koreans (careful, they're small) for several half lives. You'd even get free Potassium!
Nuke it from orbit, it's the only way to be sure.
Geese are pretty smart.
Geese are pretty big. They can take down a commercial airliner.
Hexacopters are small, fragile and expensive. They can't make more hexacopters by themselves.
I predict MORE geese poop in Canada.
Have you tried 'yuchh install exchange-server'?
I think that's the correct syntax.
Sure it will. Once everybody is taking the right happy medicine, they'll order the same things at the right time.
You just don't have the right long term view of things.
Think big.
Part of that is the world is bigger. In the ''good old days" of Radio Shack, a supply of discrete resistors, caps, general purpose transistors (remember those?) and a dozen other things would get you by. Now there are dozens of PSU configurations, even for your generic beige case PC. And it gets much worse from there. Radio Shack can't keep an RS232 TTL level converter in stock - it would sell one a decade per store and finding a clerk that even knew you were talking about an IC would be a stretch. You need Digikey or Mouser for that sort of thing.
And so it goes. Actually, my local Radio Shack located at the end of the world has a reasonable supply of electronic stuff. My big beef is the quality. They carry BNC connectors but they're so flimsy they're barely useable. I don't mind paying $5 for a single connector (at least I don't mind much if I can get it right away) but I do get frosted when I strip out the holding screw because it was tapped by some drunk Vietnamese in a dark leanto.
They lose on both ends.
Maybe he's a physicist and used to spherical cows.
Maybe I'll move....
But hardware stores are really the poster child for this sort of thing. Every rural town I've lived in has been infested with "True Value" chain stores. They sell absolute crap quality and have a pretty banal selection. Fine for a cheap 10/32 1/4 nut as long as you aren't bolting together anything critical. Even the stainless stuff they carry is ? Chinese crap - I've split nuts just with a 10 mm wrench.
The real killer with Amazon has been free shipping. Before, I would avoid buying a box of nuts or screws because of the shipping charge. With free shipping, it can be a real no brainer. And most stuff shows up in a few days. Given the breadth and depth of Amazon's catalog, local small retailers are going to have a hard time competing. That's bad in a lot of ways but until shipping charges rise (with oil price increases etc) to where Amazon can't keep up, it's the way of the future.
I have to wonder: are any serious app developers using this as a development bed for complex apps?
Of course not. This is for people who, ten years ago, would use Visual Basic as a wrapper to run a cheesy script to do something.
And forget about bounds checking, input sanitation, data security and integrity and a whole host of other bothersome concepts.
Can''t wait....
First, gene marker studies are unlikely to be tainted by 'toxins'. You have the gene or you don't. Dying doesn't give you more DNA. And yes, the Holy Grail is to use objective testing to tease out the determinant basis of a bunch of subjective issues (psychiatric diseases).
This is quite a bit different from detecting mental illness by analyzing your tweets (a tautology). It's more an attempt to find a molecular basis of why some people are twits and others not.
Best adjust your undies. Your biases are showing.
That's sort of the key. It's hard to say. If you successfully intervene, then the person doesn't commit suicide. If you don't they might. Most of the time, you can rank sucidality. Not all of the time, just like most things.
I don't think that this is going to lead to a 'suicide test' - it's rather early in the game for that. It will likely lead to more grant money in the short term and perhaps a better understanding of mood disorders in the long term. It's interesting that they focused on bipolar patients. The results may well not be generalizable to 'normal' depression, again, way too early to say. Bipolar patients (especially males) do have a higher lethality rate than so called unipolar ('normal') depressives. Is the the same mechanism writ large or something else?
The Holy Grail of Molecular Psychology is to reduce human behavior into a determinant system that can be manipulated. It will certainly help lots of people but of course opens up some interesting containers of slimy invertebrates (ie, politicians).
I'll bet you get invited to all of the Christmas parties.
No, I believe it was OS X.
Thanks! That was helpful.
Probably end up with a small internal combustion engine generator of some sort feeding and electric motor. Shouldn't be too hard to muffle the noise if you can keep the RPMs down to a reasonable range. I'm not sure how you block the IR signature. Any combustion based motor is going to bright lite a FLIR system. Maybe the Canadians will get clever - use it to heat beer* (or is that just the English?).
*Beer is consumed, IR blocked by body and whatever insulation the human is wearing. Added bonus is that course becomes more random over time, confusing targeting systems.
Umm, que joke about not bringing a snowmobile to a gun fight?
And you're gonna be damned glad they have that technology when this new uber-smart network becomes self aware, taps into the local cable feed and decides that it better stomp out the human race before something really bad happens.
You'll definitely want a stealth snowmobile. Mark my words.
Distribute SDcards that melt when connected to a computer
Your ideas intrigue me and I would like to subscribe to your newspaper.
Yep, you're gonna get stopped. Yep, they're going to go through your stuff.
I think a couple of Terabytes of 'Hello Kitty' videos placed on every bit of electronics that he owns should teach them the error of their ways.
True enough, but it's simply publicizing something that likely happened a long time ago. How many people think that Wikileaks kept the file on a laptop in somebody's house? It's always been distributed (at least Wikileaks would be dumber than a politician not to do that).
They've just made it a public spectacle. That's all.
Wikileaks is now just a government pawn, setting up to record the ip addresses of anyone downloading this honeypot.
Better load up on the tin foil. Just cover your router in it and you'll be safe.