titanium dioxide is the main pigment base in modern (but not pre-70's) white paint. While titanium is not a particularly cheap metal, paint chips are something that is actually hard to get rid of. I wonder if they could be fed on waste drywall stripped from homes. that's basically paint, paper, and gypsum.
It's beautifully effective for drives because they are high speed high precision mechanical devices, but even if you broke up the circuit board the chips were soldered to a guy with a soldering iron and some know how might still be able to get it back together again. Looking at that cell to gate progression posted earlier it sounds like unless you are able to actually destroy a given gate you don't destroy access to a give chip. If you were able to access the internals of the chip that might not be a barrier.
Too many electrons are easy to find though. Maybe get some rubber gloves, one of those hand held stun guns and zap the board parts a few times after (or before) you're finished hammering. It could be fun and sparkley. This also provides opportunity for some memorable conversations with management. "...It's these SSDs boss. They're just really hard to erase when they fail. I'm afraid the department is going to need it's own Vandegraff generator..."
ABC can't seem to keep their stuff together with their video client. the volume button is autistic, and the continue feature in which you are forced to hit a button to acknowledge that you watched their ad is recognized as a clickjack by modern browsers. They don't need HULU they need decent software.
Seems terribly convenient. The RIAA can use their special civil rights ignoring superpowers to monitor the channel and bill your cell phone account automatically.
About 5 minutes of googling found me vast numbers of things, from laptop locks impervious to the toilet paper tube solution, to locking shelves instead of drawers, to a bar style locking device IIRC I've seen used at CompUSA. Large numbers of people have his issue as evidenced by the large number of solutions available.
My suspicion is that the poster really kinda wants his office back and is making excuses. If this is the case it is natural that no solution is going to work.
IMHO I do not believe this program will either completely eradicate mosquitoes or damage the environment. It may even be good for both.
This program is fairly similar to a mosquito control program used in Alaska for many years. In that system, male mosquitoes are irradiated to destroy their sperm and released back into the environment. they eventually die from it of course, but not before they mate with thousands of female mosquitoes which are the only ones that bite. Since the females only mate once (or used to anyway, see evolution for further details..) They would go off to lay infertile eggs.
As anyone in Alaska is likely to be willing to attest, there are still a lot of mosquitoes in Alaska.
The older process, while a bit expensive, does help with the mosquitoes, and the new one may save lives, I suspect the main advantage to this procedure is that they are not throwing chemicals all over the place. To give an example, one of the more effective strategies for mosquitoes if you can't afford good chemicals (like most of Africa) and aren't too worried about the environment (like most of Africa) is to spray swamps with used motor oil.
Environment or no environment, If I had no money and I thought my little girl was likely to die this spring if nothing was being done about the mosquitoes you might very well get in the car one morning to see a little red light blinking on your dash. This program seems to solve both problems
If one may recall they did a similar thig for the simpson's movie with "duff beer" and a few other drinks. The stuff sold out in days. Even after the movie left the theater people were still reselling it at a markup. I don't think brawny will have quite that much success, but I suspect it will still make money, and that is the point after all. Besides, as proved by the fact that you are even reading this, it does work very well as a marketing tool.
This would imply that Sony has to do precisely squat. While I have no reasonable authority to hold forth on this, I do think it might still have a few repercussions.
For one thing it could make the game legal to run on an emulator. The other I can think of is it might possibly allow people to tear apart their binaries. "Legal" reverse engineering requires a lot of rigmarole that may not be necessary here. That might still be a lot more trouble than it's worth. The game is pushing 6 years old after all.
And my point is that the public as a whole simply will not adopt this lifestyle. It will always be the behavior of a tiny minority, and we are attempting to view the nation as a whole.
There seems to be a disconnect here. My impression was that we were talking about the effect such legislation would have on the nation as a whole economically. As such while your fiscal behavior seems prudent, like prudence in general it is not particularly common. The average consumer does in fact have very large vulnerability in this area.
The other possiblity is the definition of identity as used. There is identity and then identity theft.
Identity theft is a particular crime currently running rampant in the U.S. The way it works is someone gets your social security number and your address and other personal information sufficient for them to pretend to be you. Then they do things like take out dozens of credit cards and max them or mortgage your house out from under you. People have been ripped off for tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars. Fixing the problem can take years and cost yet more money. I don't know how often it happens in Europe, but it's a real problem here. I vaguely remember one major data theft involving ebay identities, the repercussions for which are definitely not limited to the United States.
I don't think the one really has much to do with the other.
The cost of identity theft is almost certainly higher. Even if only a small fraction of these result in actual identity theft the number of names lost per violation is usually in the thousands.
Remember crimes like this have tertiary costs much the same way that building a factory in a community creates more jobs that the number of people it actually hires. Fixing the damage from an identity theft can take a victim years. There is lost wages, lost buying power, not to mention the straight legal costs to fix things which could. actually exceed the cost of incarceration with even just a couple of victims from a given theft.
I honestly think this will likely save money in the long run. It may be difficult to determine that however as it is difficult to calculate the savings from crime that is kept from happening.
Personally I've had the impression that the reason they've instituted all these controls is they have been completely unable to institute hardcore unemployed alcoholic teenager controls. That's just what I get from reading BBC news though. It might be interesting to see what the relative statistics are amongst countries.
I must admit my bias here though. I have long felt that business's ability to data mine the public, and of course me in particular, is offensively invasive. Since the best way for a company to keep from having this problem is to not retain the data in the first place the law does serve my interests even though I do not even live in the country, but only occasionally buy things there by mail.
A: Just about any other white collar criminal who steals enough to make the maximum fine seem like nothing in comparison. Most major wall street crooks for instance. White collar crime is like that unfortunately.
This is IMHO yet more legislation that begs more questions. How much smaller is smaller? and what does slashed mean? To make some random guesses, if they are determining size by ad revenue then channels that do not sell ads will make out like crazy. If they do it my ratings, then weirdo ultra niche market stuff will do well. If they do it by company value The televangelists will saturate the airways.
None of these things sound useful to me. Who is it benefiting? Besides televangelists of course.
Since when have english speakers ever spelled anything right? I mean how the heck did they get Japan out of Nippon anyway? Personally I think the metal does fine without the two extra wasted syllables. It's not like anyone confuses it with anything else.
While we don't have these in the U.S., I know in Germany and England at least there are exams at various levels that literally determine whether you are allowed to continue on to college or not. If this is one of those those tests and it really is going to affect the rest of your life, it may behoove you to do anything possible. Is there any precedent for people being able to retake the tests?
I don't know much about Australian law, but I suspect that if the local press is not somehow denied access to the site, merely threatening to sue them anyway even if you don't have a case will likely garner you enough press time to embarrass them a lot more than the website.
They may allow you back in or to retake the test in simple self defense. You will likely be seeing some hardball. The accusations on your site can be enough to keep an elected official out of office or get a superintendent fired. Again consult the lawyer first, but pointing out that it will get into the local news may cause a really amazing effect.
Also don't assume that t6hey are necessarily telling you the truth about what is defamatory and what is not. A lot of that stuff is opinion and not thier opinion to boot.
The use of the word pygmies may turn out to be ill advised. Bring ethnic characters into conversation as an insult is flat out asking for it. I suspect the pygmy population in the United States is rather low, but it probably doesn't matter. In fact if I was Yahoo I might even arrange to quietly cause a stink about it.
I agree that it is probably the same guys doing it over and over again. The relatively advanced method of attack also implies something over and above the crackhead level of intelligence. There are inside jobs and inside jobs though. It could just as be a relative of boyfriend or even friend of a friend or relative.
All they need is the knowledge of what is inside combined with some knowledge of the defense systems. You can get that for a couple of beers if you ask the right person in the right way.
The same could be said for mailing a letter. I suspect the cause may lean more towards simplicity and availability.
To sit down, find an envelope, and actually put 35 cents on the thing requires more forethought and commitment than firing off an email. It also takes at least several minutes to do, so there will be a bit more composition of thought than in an email.
Email can be a much more heat of the moment thing, as evidenced frequently by this forum. I guarantee that if replying to this thread, or even this forum required me to mail an envelope it would not have happened.
Zodiacs are kind of a special case. They qualify in the "skipping over the water category. A zodiac with just a pilot and no gear is so light it is not uncommon to have power to weight ratios as high as 1 to 2 or 3. Two or three horsepower for every pound of boat. A 200 mph "supercar" like high end Ferraris by comparison have power to weight ratios of more 6 to 1. one horsepower for every 6 pounds of car. At high speeds zodiacs don't merely hydroplane they actually create aerodynamic lift and literally travel with just the propeller in the water.
A zodiac also has a live and especially with Green Peace generally have very highly skilled pilots. Even so it remains highly dangerous. When driven in the way the picture shows they flip over with great regularity and have even been known to fly high enough to actually land on the decks of the ships they are messing with.
The addition of a live human that can correct for chop with is body and real time micro adjustments can compensate somewhat for the pounding waves. It is still reputed to be an extraordinarily bone jarring experience.
IMHO While I suppose that it is theoretically possible to simulate this with robotics I really rather doubt it can be done with any kind of ease.
They have done tests using examples of police uniforms and asking citizens what type of uniform made them feel most secure. They ranged from the wildly florid with knee high leather boots and helmets and epaulets and whatnot, to guys in blue blazers with all their gear hidden under the coats.
The overwhelming winner were the uniforms with as much testosterone laced leather froo-froo as could be sewn to them.
Hmm... a jet ski sized robot attempting to observe and engage in the open ocean.. I wonder if any of these guys have actually been in the open ocean?
The sea is big people. The waves are big, the wind is big and the ships are big. A really small boat just barely big enough to manage to stay afloat semi-reliably in open ocean is generally 30 feet long or more. They do make them shorter, but generally only as a stunt. What is a four foot tall vehicle going to do against a vessel with steel and concrete sides that reach probably at least 10-15 feet up? These things are going to present about as much threat to the average ocean going vessel as a chihuahua attempting to pee on one's foot.
We also mentioned the sea is big. Average swell depending on area can be 8 feet on a calm day. this means a jet ski about 4 feet high is going to either spend 75% of its time inside the trough of a swell unable to see squat, or skipping along the swell tops in a way that is going to strongly resemble video froma a surfboard cam. Very splashy but not too useful.
As a harbor or shore defense weapon I can see these being possibly quite useful against similarly sized vessels like dinghies and maybe cigarette boats, but anything offshore is unrealistic.
because the main point of a deterrent is to be a deterrent. For example, while cops do have unmarked cars the vast majority are pretty gaudily painted. Police uniforms are designed to make them look larger and more imposing. The idea, at least in most cases, is not to get someone to commit the crime so you can catch him, but to deter them from attempting it in the first place.
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titanium dioxide is the main pigment base in modern (but not pre-70's) white paint. While titanium is not a particularly cheap metal, paint chips are something that is actually hard to get rid of. I wonder if they could be fed on waste drywall stripped from homes. that's basically paint, paper, and gypsum.
but... smoke! fire! Giant three inch long sparks!.... 8(
I wonder how well that hammer thing worked.
It's beautifully effective for drives because they are high speed high precision mechanical devices, but even if you broke up the circuit board the chips were soldered to a guy with a soldering iron and some know how might still be able to get it back together again. Looking at that cell to gate progression posted earlier it sounds like unless you are able to actually destroy a given gate you don't destroy access to a give chip. If you were able to access the internals of the chip that might not be a barrier.
Too many electrons are easy to find though. Maybe get some rubber gloves, one of those hand held stun guns and zap the board parts a few times after (or before) you're finished hammering. It could be fun and sparkley. This also provides opportunity for some memorable conversations with management. " ...It's these SSDs boss. They're just really hard to erase when they fail. I'm afraid the department is going to need it's own Vandegraff generator..."
The blue smoke wants to be free.
ABC can't seem to keep their stuff together with their video client. the volume button is autistic, and the continue feature in which you are forced to hit a button to acknowledge that you watched their ad is recognized as a clickjack by modern browsers.
They don't need HULU they need decent software.
Seems terribly convenient. The RIAA can use their special civil rights ignoring superpowers to monitor the channel and bill your cell phone account automatically.
About 5 minutes of googling found me vast numbers of things, from laptop locks impervious to the toilet paper tube solution, to locking shelves instead of drawers, to a bar style locking device IIRC I've seen used at CompUSA. Large numbers of people have his issue as evidenced by the large number of solutions available.
My suspicion is that the poster really kinda wants his office back and is making excuses. If this is the case it is natural that no solution is going to work.
IMHO I do not believe this program will either completely eradicate mosquitoes or damage the environment. It may even be good for both.
This program is fairly similar to a mosquito control program used in Alaska for many years. In that system, male mosquitoes are irradiated to destroy their sperm and released back into the environment. they eventually die from it of course, but not before they mate with thousands of female mosquitoes which are the only ones that bite. Since the females only mate once (or used to anyway, see evolution for further details..) They would go off to lay infertile eggs.
As anyone in Alaska is likely to be willing to attest, there are still a lot of mosquitoes in Alaska.
The older process, while a bit expensive, does help with the mosquitoes, and the new one may save lives, I suspect the main advantage to this procedure is that they are not throwing chemicals all over the place. To give an example, one of the more effective strategies for mosquitoes if you can't afford good chemicals (like most of Africa) and aren't too worried about the environment (like most of Africa) is to spray swamps with used motor oil.
Environment or no environment, If I had no money and I thought my little girl was likely to die this spring if nothing was being done about the mosquitoes you might very well get in the car one morning to see a little red light blinking on your dash. This program seems to solve both problems
If one may recall they did a similar thig for the simpson's movie with "duff beer" and a few other drinks. The stuff sold out in days. Even after the movie left the theater people were still reselling it at a markup. I don't think brawny will have quite that much success, but I suspect it will still make money, and that is the point after all. Besides, as proved by the fact that you are even reading this, it does work very well as a marketing tool.
This would imply that Sony has to do precisely squat. While I have no reasonable authority to hold forth on this, I do think it might still have a few repercussions.
For one thing it could make the game legal to run on an emulator. The other I can think of is it might possibly allow people to tear apart their binaries. "Legal" reverse engineering requires a lot of rigmarole that may not be necessary here. That might still be a lot more trouble than it's worth. The game is pushing 6 years old after all.
And my point is that the public as a whole simply will not adopt this lifestyle. It will always be the behavior of a tiny minority, and we are attempting to view the nation as a whole.
There seems to be a disconnect here. My impression was that we were talking about the effect such legislation would have on the nation as a whole economically.
As such while your fiscal behavior seems prudent, like prudence in general it is not particularly common. The average consumer does in fact have very large vulnerability in this area.
The other possiblity is the definition of identity as used. There is identity and then identity theft.
Identity theft is a particular crime currently running rampant in the U.S. The way it works is someone gets your social security number and your address and other personal information sufficient for them to pretend to be you. Then they do things like take out dozens of credit cards and max them or mortgage your house out from under you. People have been ripped off for tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars. Fixing the problem can take years and cost yet more money. I don't know how often it happens in Europe, but it's a real problem here. I vaguely remember one major data theft involving ebay identities, the repercussions for which are definitely not limited to the United States.
I don't think the one really has much to do with the other.
The cost of identity theft is almost certainly higher. Even if only a small fraction of these result in actual identity theft the number of names lost per violation is usually in the thousands.
Remember crimes like this have tertiary costs much the same way that building a factory in a community creates more jobs that the number of people it actually hires. Fixing the damage from an identity theft can take a victim years. There is lost wages, lost buying power, not to mention the straight legal costs to fix things which could. actually exceed the cost of incarceration with even just a couple of victims from a given theft.
I honestly think this will likely save money in the long run. It may be difficult to determine that however as it is difficult to calculate the savings from crime that is kept from happening.
Personally I've had the impression that the reason they've instituted all these controls is they have been completely unable to institute hardcore unemployed alcoholic teenager controls. That's just what I get from reading BBC news though. It might be interesting to see what the relative statistics are amongst countries.
I must admit my bias here though. I have long felt that business's ability to data mine the public, and of course me in particular, is offensively invasive. Since the best way for a company to keep from having this problem is to not retain the data in the first place the law does serve my interests even though I do not even live in the country, but only occasionally buy things there by mail.
A: Just about any other white collar criminal who steals enough to make the maximum fine seem like nothing in comparison. Most major wall street crooks for instance. White collar crime is like that unfortunately.
This is IMHO yet more legislation that begs more questions. How much smaller is smaller? and what does slashed mean? To make some random guesses, if they are determining size by ad revenue then channels that do not sell ads will make out like crazy. If they do it my ratings, then weirdo ultra niche market stuff will do well. If they do it by company value The televangelists will saturate the airways.
None of these things sound useful to me. Who is it benefiting? Besides televangelists of course.
Since when have english speakers ever spelled anything right? I mean how the heck did they get Japan out of Nippon anyway? Personally I think the metal does fine without the two extra wasted syllables. It's not like anyone confuses it with anything else.
How important is this exam to your future?
While we don't have these in the U.S., I know in Germany and England at least there are exams at various levels that literally determine whether you are allowed to continue on to college or not.
If this is one of those those tests and it really is going to affect the rest of your life, it may behoove you to do anything possible. Is there any precedent for people being able to retake the tests?
Timer to hire a lawyer.
I don't know much about Australian law, but I suspect that if the local press is not somehow denied access to the site, merely threatening to sue them anyway even if you don't have a case will likely garner you enough press time to embarrass them a lot more than the website.
They may allow you back in or to retake the test in simple self defense. You will likely be seeing some hardball. The accusations on your site can be enough to keep an elected official out of office or get a superintendent fired. Again consult the lawyer first, but pointing out that it will get into the local news may cause a really amazing effect.
Also don't assume that t6hey are necessarily telling you the truth about what is defamatory and what is not. A lot of that stuff is opinion and not thier opinion to boot.
The use of the word pygmies may turn out to be ill advised. Bring ethnic characters into conversation as an insult is flat out asking for it. I suspect the pygmy population in the United States is rather low, but it probably doesn't matter. In fact if I was Yahoo I might even arrange to quietly cause a stink about it.
Serious? Or is that bs?
I agree that it is probably the same guys doing it over and over again. The relatively advanced method of attack also implies something over and above the crackhead level of intelligence. There are inside jobs and inside jobs though. It could just as be a relative of boyfriend or even friend of a friend or relative.
All they need is the knowledge of what is inside combined with some knowledge of the defense systems. You can get that for a couple of beers if you ask the right person in the right way.
The same could be said for mailing a letter. I suspect the cause may lean more towards simplicity and availability.
To sit down, find an envelope, and actually put 35 cents on the thing requires more forethought and commitment than firing off an email. It also takes at least several minutes to do, so there will be a bit more composition of thought than in an email.
Email can be a much more heat of the moment thing, as evidenced frequently by this forum. I guarantee that if replying to this thread, or even this forum required me to mail an envelope it would not have happened.
Zodiacs are kind of a special case. They qualify in the "skipping over the water category. A zodiac with just a pilot and no gear is so light it is not uncommon to have power to weight ratios as high as 1 to 2 or 3. Two or three horsepower for every pound of boat. A 200 mph "supercar" like high end Ferraris by comparison have power to weight ratios of more 6 to 1. one horsepower for every 6 pounds of car. At high speeds zodiacs don't merely hydroplane they actually create aerodynamic lift and literally travel with just the propeller in the water.
A zodiac also has a live and especially with Green Peace generally have very highly skilled pilots. Even so it remains highly dangerous. When driven in the way the picture shows they flip over with great regularity and have even been known to fly high enough to actually land on the decks of the ships they are messing with.
The addition of a live human that can correct for chop with is body and real time micro adjustments can compensate somewhat for the pounding waves. It is still reputed to be an extraordinarily bone jarring experience.
IMHO While I suppose that it is theoretically possible to simulate this with robotics I really rather doubt it can be done with any kind of ease.
Ironically yes.
They have done tests using examples of police uniforms and asking citizens what type of uniform made them feel most secure. They ranged from the wildly florid with knee high leather boots and helmets and epaulets and whatnot, to guys in blue blazers with all their gear hidden under the coats.
The overwhelming winner were the uniforms with as much testosterone laced leather froo-froo as could be sewn to them.
Hmm... a jet ski sized robot attempting to observe and engage in the open ocean.. I wonder if any of these guys have actually been in the open ocean?
The sea is big people. The waves are big, the wind is big and the ships are big. A really small boat just barely big enough to manage to stay afloat semi-reliably in open ocean is generally 30 feet long or more. They do make them shorter, but generally only as a stunt. What is a four foot tall vehicle going to do against a vessel with steel and concrete sides that reach probably at least 10-15 feet up? These things are going to present about as much threat to the average ocean going vessel as a chihuahua attempting to pee on one's foot.
We also mentioned the sea is big. Average swell depending on area can be 8 feet on a calm day. this means a jet ski about 4 feet high is going to either spend 75% of its time inside the trough of a swell unable to see squat, or skipping along the swell tops in a way that is going to strongly resemble video froma a surfboard cam. Very splashy but not too useful.
As a harbor or shore defense weapon I can see these being possibly quite useful against similarly sized vessels like dinghies and maybe cigarette boats, but anything offshore is unrealistic.
because the main point of a deterrent is to be a deterrent. For example, while cops do have unmarked cars the vast majority are pretty gaudily painted. Police uniforms are designed to make them look larger and more imposing. The idea, at least in most cases, is not to get someone to commit the crime so you can catch him, but to deter them from attempting it in the first place.