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  1. Re:Not mentioned in the summary on A CO2 Shortage is Causing a Beer and Meat Crisis in Britain (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    What I said: even though you're talking about 'producing lots of CO2' it still is only ~1500ppm in the exhaust of those processes. Separating it out chemically would cost more in CO2 consumption than the CO2 it produces (we're talking about having lithium or other expensive catalysts). Producing CO2 chemically is a lot cheaper and straight forward.

  2. Re:Not mentioned in the summary on A CO2 Shortage is Causing a Beer and Meat Crisis in Britain (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    That's costly. The "air" is mainly made out of nitrogen and oxygen. CO2 only makes up 0.0008 percent of the air. Even when you're talking about industrial processes, only 0.06 percent of the exhaust would be containing CO2. Trying to extract into a separated gas is nearly impossible.

  3. Food stamps where I live add up to a value of 12-24k/year for a pregnant mother depending on current income. Families get more, we could sustain a family of 3 on a single person's food stamps and we were already making a combined $85k/year from real jobs.

    Assisted housing throws in another $500/month for rent. Free cell phone service ($60-120/month value). Free medical insurance (pre-ObamaCare, after OC a lot of people lost state benefits) which was another $1500/month value.

  4. Re: Core fail.... on Shots Fired Again Between CPU Vendors AMD and Intel (tomshardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Everything is optimized for Intel. There are some applications that use Intel-specific processor opcodes that AMD doesn't handle nearly as quickly especially in CAD and HPC, sure eventually AMD will emulate the behavior but they always seem behind. One such things is VM's - since everything is Intel, you have to stay with Intel or stay with AMD if you want to migrate between hypervisors. Migrating to AMD platform for a cluster suddenly requires both downtime and/or chucking all your "old" machines but AMD has also been behind on SR-IOV and other virtualization features.

    AMD is good for gamers and office desktops, their server stuff has always been behind. Until Epyc, they were stuck on DDR3 and even to this day they still sell Opteron (DDR3) chips. Their Epyc stuff finally gets into massive numbers of cores but it's not any cheaper than Intel's offering. Intel Xeon has had SR-IOV GPUs on-die for a while (KVM allows you to share up to 8 dedicated GPUs per CPU). There are all those little things that add up to AMD being written off in the server market.

  5. Re: Core fail.... on Shots Fired Again Between CPU Vendors AMD and Intel (tomshardware.com) · · Score: 0

    Highly doubt that. We're just looking at piloting an Epyc processor but everything will continue to be Intel until we can be absolutely sure everything is compatible and cost savings are actually worth it.

    When you configure a $25000 server $500 in savings doesn't matter much.

  6. Re: Didn't we all assume this was already happenin on iOS 12 Will Automatically Share Your iPhone Location With 911 Centers (phonedog.com) · · Score: 1

    It's all about money. A satellite system with GPS costs thousands to install and maintain and it adds weight with a very minor chance of ever being useful.

  7. Re: Didn't we all assume this was already happenin on iOS 12 Will Automatically Share Your iPhone Location With 911 Centers (phonedog.com) · · Score: 1

    18 minutes is pretty good. When I lived in the inner city I had 911 calls taking more than 3 hours to respond.

  8. Last time space exploration was about national security, we actually went to the moon. When the Cold War ended the space missions all but ended.

  9. Re:Yet... on WHO Classifies 'Gaming Disorder' as Mental Health Condition (cnn.com) · · Score: 2, Informative
  10. Reading the whole disk to create thumbnails can be pretty slow. This is pretty much a non-issue though, whenever your OS runs low on memory, it will swap whatever is in memory to disk. If your disk isn't encrypted, you'd see a lot more than just thumbnails.

  11. Re:Wait. What? on macOS Breaks Your OpSec by Caching Data From Encrypted Hard Drives (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    But that is true for anything. If you plug in an encrypted drive in an insecure system and decrypt it, the encryption doesn't matter. Your memory could be swapped to disk at any point in time regardless of your OS. Hence the need for FDE.

  12. Re:Is the pill magnetic? on Man Reports PillCam Stuck In His Gut For Over 12 Weeks · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't recommend that procedure, rare earth magnets are a bit too strong and depending on the location (probably one of the 'folds' in the GI tract), it's more likely you'll get it lodged even deeper or do more damage. What you need is a guided magnetic field, there has been some research done in them to guide tiny objects such as drug delivery even through something relatively small like arteries.

  13. In Dutch a BV is a private limited liability company (similar to Ltd in English)

  14. Re: Execute Barriss on Two Teenaged Gamers Plead 'Not Guilty' For Fatal Kansas Swatting Death (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    You can ask in most places for a FLIR energy asssessment (sometimes free). They really can't see through walls, perhaps in video games but there is currently no technology that can actually see through walls (except for windows which FLIR can in some occasions see through as well).

    There are some microwave and light wave technologies under development that can "see" through walls but they aren't ready and they can't see very far, very accurate and usually have some requirements like a big opening with a reflective backing for the waves to travel through.

  15. Re: Execute Barriss on Two Teenaged Gamers Plead 'Not Guilty' For Fatal Kansas Swatting Death (reuters.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    The problem is that most law enforcement aren't trained to handle hostage situations and unless you deal with it every day there is no way you can get someone good in every precinct.

    Law enforcement shows up like that because in inner city neighborhoods criminals are better armed than the average beat cop.

    When you have people walking around with armor penetrating rounds and automatic assault weapons, police need to respond with armored trucks or they'll get mowed down.

    The war on drugs is a real war with weapon races and extensive research and development on both sides. Between the cartels, assisted housing drug dealers, BLM and Antifa all deploying guerrila style attacks on police this effect only accelerates. You can occasionally find YouTube movies where inner city assisted housing drug dealers will call in fake 911 and ambush police as revenge for arrests.

  16. Science reporting is getting dumber on We're All Getting Dumber, Says Science (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    The data and abstract doesn't show what is claimed in the headline. It shows a slowdown of the Flynn effect but the people in the studies are still smarter than 1970s cohorts.

    What's more is that the data clearly declares bias: only Norwegian males born from two Norwegian parents are included. Moreover the scoring systems were changed in the 1980s and in the early 2000s and they indicate the data is thus less accurate.

    So basically: people entering the Norwegian military are not getting progressively smarter as we thought. Or: people that aren't smart enough to avoid military service are getting dumber.

  17. Re: This really hurts ... on $950 Million Large Hadron Collider Upgrade 'Could Upend Particle Physics' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    The problem with science in the US is that it has been overrun by MBAs and liberal self-centered asswipes that think they should get money just because they deserve it. So both the administration and the scientists aren't productive and even in the basic sciences countries like China and Israel are eating the US for breakfast. The west is having a brain drain towards the Middle East and Orient.

    In Europe you've got a little bit of a break because the government is obligated to spend the huge taxation but dollar-for-dollar except for the LHC they aren't nearly as productive.

  18. Re: 'Could Upend Particle Physics' on $950 Million Large Hadron Collider Upgrade 'Could Upend Particle Physics' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Not really, nobody wants to upend it, just confirm theory. Physics has worked so far according to theory. If we hadn't found the Higgs boson then we'd have upended physics and left with a huge problem. There are some more details we haven't found out yet but theoretically we predict things pretty accurately and the rather esoteric alternative explanations *cough*string/multiverse theory*cough* are either untestable or proven to be unnecessary.

  19. Actually once you starting to talk about billions in either valuta the 3rd and 4th digits suddenly become millions of dollars.

  20. From what I can collect, the UI for O365 and other browser based tools in the future will be rewritten with a React/Electron/JS focus.

    They're already in JS and HTML obviously or they wouldn't work in the browser. But right now those things are a mess.

    I'm sure, and I don't know who assumed, that the server-side would be completely rewritten with a UI-oriented framework.

  21. SAT and other scores are a direct predictor of success regardless of whether you end up going to college.

  22. Re:You're looking in the wrong place... on Four Years On, Developers Ponder The Real Purpose of Apple's Swift Programming Language (monkeydom.de) · · Score: 1

    Every single platform has an Objective-C compiler. Just because it's not in VisualStudio doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

  23. Re: Yes, without success on In the Trump Administration, Science Is Unwelcome. So Is Advice. (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Indictments don't mean shit if you don't get a jury trial. And the few indictments have been on technicalities or issues unrelated to the investigation.

  24. Re: Yep, problems all around on In the Trump Administration, Science Is Unwelcome. So Is Advice. (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Where is the science that any of that is actually bad for either cows or humans? The FDA has some of the strictest regulations in the world, yet you say they're letting farmers poison the population with milk?

  25. You must be in a small country, 2mS means you have a Google server pretty much right down the street, I work with a Metropolitan Area Network and we get 2-5mS internally (between switching latencies and a few hundred miles of fiber that circles a small city).

    The problem is that the majority of people don't have that. The majority of the affluent US populations live in suburban developments, the physics alone dictate at least 50mS in latency without even allowing time for processing and responding (which even on ultramodern hardware can take about 20-40mS). Current latencies from input to output within a computer are at ~100-150mS (display lag, input lag, processing, triple buffering) which is just under the edge of being noticeable.

    It's technically possible to have a system like this work: put a datacenter in every city and town; give people real-time input and output systems (eg. displays that do not have any buffers) which are currently available for scientific work and then you may get close to what we have at this point. But it's not going to be cheaper and as long as the economic aspect isn't solved you won't convince anyone to buy the product.