It is true quantum mechanics allows for the conservation of energy, momentum, mass etc to be violated, unlike classical mechanics. But these "violations" creating more energy than was supplied etc are all limited by the Plank's constant. The Hiesenberg's Uncertainity Principle can be restated in terms of energy. Energy can be created out of nothing, but the duration of the energy imbalance times the amount of imbalance is limited by Plank's constant. Thus even if Casimir effect produces energy out of nothing it is going be nearly zero. If it is significantly above zero it will last for infinitesimally small duration. Quantum mechanics can defy classical mechanics, but only upto Plank's constant.
Basically the media always takes some research report, ignores the backer of the study to look for biases, chews through the report, ignores all the important findings, and finally picks some minor titbit that can be presented, "this shows they were wrong". It does not matter what "this" is or who "they" were. All it matters is, the reporter gets to have a smug smile, and some people are painted as ignorant while the listener's attention is grabbed long enough to peddle the "new and exciting products" from their sponsors.
This wonderful research was brought to you by: (source)The study, conducted by the University of Texas and sponsored by the Environmental Defense Fund and nine petroleum companies,. Main idea there was the gas leaks from fracking sites is more than estimated by EPA but much less than environmental groups.
One of the minor finding of this research was, compared to liquid hydrocarbons, the gaseous hydrocarbon burns cleanly and produces less carbon dioxide, but leaks more in the present day (paraphrased and emphasis by me) infrastructure. One would think the right thing to do is to plug the damned leaks, especially because the leakers are distributed according to power rule. (nothing to do with political power, power rule is a statistical term). Like 80% of crime committed by 20% of criminals, or 80% income earned by 20% of the employed, 80% of the leaks come from 20% of the leakers and 1% of the leakers basically account for 50% of all leaks. So it would be very cost effective to go after the leaks, plug it and make natural gas better than liquids as transportation fuel.
The immobile consumers of energy (offices, homes, factories) have alternatives to fossil fuels to varying degrees, mostly in the form of renewable electricity. But the transportation sector (except of electrified rail) relies totally on fossil fuels. Planes burn kerosene, no alternatives in sight. Trucks burn diesel some vague alternatives for delivery loops on the horizon, none for long distance haulers, yet. Diesel locomotives drag a long chain of LPG , CNG rail cars, but don't have the ability to use one of them as the fuel tank. But if the natural gas prices keep dropping, we can expect them to take a look. The railroads phased out all the steam locomotives and switched diesel in just one decade in 1950s. Cars have some alternatives within striking distance. No alternatives to fossil fules in sea cargo side either. The dependency of transportation sector on fossil fuels is not likely to be shaken for considerable future. Taking the effort to plug the leaks and switching to gaseous hydrocarbons instead of liquid hydrocarbons is the most viable thing to do to tackle climate change.
As far as I could make out the cypher is something like, the letter I is pronounced "eye", so replace I with E. The letter K is pronounced "kay" so K will be replaced with Y. Obviously the hash is many to one. Both B and I will map to E in English. Not sure it would be one-to-one in runes.
It is the contractor he hired the brick layer who pays for the repairs. The brick layer walks out of the door after 8 hours or it is time and a half. Double time on weekend. So if your code has bugs, your employer should pay the cost of fixing it, and also for any damages caused. As a salaried employee you write code and walk out of the door. If he does not like the way you code, he can fire you. That is the maximum liability you have as a salaried employee.
Of course he can hire you as a subcontractor and make you bear the responsibility of fixing it too, but your billing rate will be commensurate with that responsibility.
Cambrian explosion is one of the most misunderstood terms, sometimes very willfully misrepresented. The "explosion" unfloded over a minimum of 10 million years, but more likely estimate is between 20 and 50 million years. For a species that has been in existence for less than 0.1 million years, belonging to a genus existing for less than 3 million years calling this an "explosion" is incomprehensible. Tool usage is less than 2 million years old. Fire has been tamed for 0.5 million years. Language is probably 0.075 million years old. Domestication of animals is 0.015 million years old. Plants> 0.01 million years, writing is 0.005 million years old. Metallurgy is 0.004 million years old at most. Now try to imagine how long 10 million years was.
All that happened was the emergence of bones/shells. This was the first thing that could fossilize. Everything earlier had just soft tissues and they did not fossilize well. So there was an "explosion" of fossilization, not necessarily speciation.
Wish people would develop an xterm or cygwin term specifically designed to select the sha check sum. I want to click or double click on a line and I want it to select a sha check sum if displayed on that line. Or default to selecting full line if nothing that looks like a sha check sum is found on that line.
I don't want to pay for the overhead of a full fledged GUI. I like the speed of command line thank you very much. But picking the check sum to do cherry picks is a pain. Especially for me stuck in a stupid cygwin terminal in a Win7 box.
Developing the idea further, some kind of graphical/mouse pick from the output of git log --format="%h %an %s" origin/master..my_bug_fix_branch in a regular console window would be great. I would like to right-click on a line in a console window and get a context menu under the mouse cursor. The line under the cursor should be parsed and broken into %d %n %an etc be available to the git commands in the context menu.
I would have thought GOP would have preferred the name "Ante bellum" to be consistent with their views. (I mean present day GoP's views, not the views of GOP during antebellum era).
Often they are in the best position and knowledge to contribute. Only thing I would ask for is disclosure so that others can watch and correct manipulation of pov.
Personally, I would not like to lose my freedom of expression to express my views on, say, finite element analysis or mesh generation just because I work for a company making commercial products in that area. But if I ever edit the wiki article of my employer, I would make damn sure everyone knows my background so that my biases conscious or unconscious are corrected.
The democrats haven't been winning by huge landslides either. A small tweak from the Republicans stance, say being more open to Gay Marriage, or actually getting their act together on a good immigration policy could be enough to change the tide.
Dems are not winning by a landslide, that is true. The moment GOP moderates its stance it is going to lose a bulk of the moonbat crazy right wing that was preventing the Dem landslides. People who would prefer moderation immigration or gay issue are not going to switch in sufficient numbers to make up for the loss of crazy right wing. GOP has been riding the tiger. They have been trading away large number of moderate voters,( but whose voter turn out rate is low) to pursue the crazy nutjobs, who have smaller number but make up for it in voter turn out. But there is a limit to how much mileage you can get out of them. All that gerry mandering, bias in politics for small states with two senators each, natural accretion of dems in dense urban blocks, liberals in small red towns/counties/state moving to friendlier anonymous cities etc etc have all been exhausted to the limit. They have painted themselves into this corner, it is not easy to dig out of that hole (forgive my mixed metaphors).
They refuse to check bags to the lay over destination. So walking out at the lay-over point works only when you travel with hand baggage. Also there used to be a Saturday night stay over deal for round trip tickets. When the deal works out to more than 50% discount, people book two round trip tickets and waste the return half.
Anyway within USA air travel for anything less than 400 miles have become a total waste of time. Given the distance of the air port to your actual destination, and distance between home and home departure airport, gate rape by TSA, lack of direct flights etc etc, often it is faster to drive or catch a bus.
Wondering what happened to all those people who fall over themselves denouncing the government interfering with free markets, regulations being job killers and taxation being theft etc etc? All those ideas look attractive in the abstract. On the ground when the free market is interfering with your drinking water supply (like it happened in Charleston recently) or when some building interferes with cell phones, that is when we want the regulators to have some power. But we have systematically cut their budgets, driven all competent people out of civil service by constant insults.
The sad thing is, polluters follow the "power rule", that is 80% of the pollution is caused by 20% of the polluters, they use lobbying and public (mis)information campaigns that bias the general population against the civil service.
Whitelisting is a good idea and will work for most of the users of the system. But if your company developes software remember to exclude the developer machines from this IT policy. Lest the following happens:
IT: You want answers?
Vamsi: I think I'm entitled to it.
IT: *You want answers?*
Vamsi: I want Bit9 logs.
IT: *You can't handle Bit9 logs*
[pauses]
IT : Son, we live in a network that has firewalls, and those firewalls have to be guarded by men with AVS. Who's gonna do it? You? You, Vamsi? We have greater responsibility than you could possibly fathom. You weep for your Simplorer bug. You curse the IT. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what we know. And our existence, grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves apps. You don't want Bit9 logs because deep down in places you don't talk about in parties, you want us on the firewall. We use words like DMZ, malware, payload and signature. We use those words as careers spent on defending something. You use them as punchline. We have neither the time nor the inclination to explain ourselves to the devs who code and email under the infrastructure we secure, and then question the manner in which we secure it. We would rather you just said thank you and went on your way. Otherwise I suggest you pick up a disk and update Barracuda. Either way, we don't give a damn what you think you are entitled to.
Vamsi: Did Bit9 lock up mt.exe?
IT: We did the job.. We...
Vamsi: *Did Bit9 lock up mt.exe?*
IT: You're goddamn right it did.
[If you have not figured it out by now, Vamsi is a developer whose build process (mt.exe) was getting killed Bit9. Vamsi suspected it and reported it many times, but IT would not even let him see the Bit9 logs to confirm this was the case].
Interesting, he raises his own pay by 10 million dollars and then blames Obamacare for 7 million dollar increase in "costs". Even if what this inveterate liar is saying is true, it works out to less than 2 bucks a day per employee.
The hacker has to physically install a dongle in the port, or plug the hard ware somewhere under the hood of the car. Once that is done, it would be possible to control the cars electronics remotely.
1. If I post a comment, I want to be able to very quickly find all the followups to that post. The root could be that post, or its parent, but not much higher than that. I usually do it from my profile by clicking on the message id. This is very very important.
2. I need to set the filter level. I have learnt to work the behavior of the slider bar. I don't want something radically different, just something that works reasonably well.
1. From my profile I have to be able to click my way to my recent posts, check if anyone has posted a response. The beta does not have that feature. If I can't do that I would post much less.
2. I need to able to control the levels and see the posts chronologically. Sorting by insightful/informative/funny may be ok, but so many posts flip and flop between funny and insightful...
3. Pity if I lose interest and walk away. All 31 achievements... lost for ever.
Actually it would work to balance the load on the car rental businesses.
Their biggest customers are business customers. That is why you see cheap deals on
weekend rentals. So it is basically easy money for the rental companies.
When you buy it in bulk gas cars can be rented for less than 25$ a day unlimited miles. Electric car makers can easily throw in 28 days of gas car rental as a sweetener to induce sitting-on-the-fence customers.
Also time is ripe for rental car companies to offer a simple car rental accounts to electric car, bus/rail commuter, bicyclers, elderly etc. I imagine if they come up with a model like 50$ a month gets you two days of rentals, and the unused days accumulate, once the customers reach something like 28 days of rentals they just pay a small annual fee to keep the account current. The might even provide a couple of electric charging stations and brag about their green credentials.
Of course I wish you could install it in your living room. Given that the volume can kill a person, it is going to be more like dying room. But, please be my guest. Once all these noise obsessed people have knocked themselves out of the genepool, real music might emerge someday.
The old wives tale in India is that the snake charmers give their children minute doses of snake venom at a very age and slowly increase the dosage. The claim is that they become tolerant to snake venom and if a snake bites them, the snake would die. Though it seems within the realm of possibility, I don't think it would work. Snake venoms are neurotoxins easily neutralized by stomach acids. So eating venom would not really help boost any kind of immunity. Even if the snake charmers did follow this practice, the benefit they get must be placebo effect.
Hat tip to Dr Romulus Whitaker. He trained the traditional snake hunting tribes to switch to milking the venom and releasing the snakes back into the wild. Great work saving these great snakes, reducing vermin and saving a significant percentage of the harvest of that part of the world. Sadly he is completely allergic to anti-venom now, due to numerous treatment for snake bites in the past. So next bite he gets, he would die. Shows one could develop intolerance instead of tolerance by repeated exposure to toxins.
Well they are going hide a transmitter in an enslaved car, right? Everyone will be working on scanners to locate their transmitters. Even a single mom stuck on dead end planet who gave birth by parthenogenesis to a precocious son who is deep into pod racing sub-culture would be working on scanners.
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They went live on an untested system? Who was in charge of the deployment of the suit? Kathleen Sebelius?
It is true quantum mechanics allows for the conservation of energy, momentum, mass etc to be violated, unlike classical mechanics. But these "violations" creating more energy than was supplied etc are all limited by the Plank's constant. The Hiesenberg's Uncertainity Principle can be restated in terms of energy. Energy can be created out of nothing, but the duration of the energy imbalance times the amount of imbalance is limited by Plank's constant. Thus even if Casimir effect produces energy out of nothing it is going be nearly zero. If it is significantly above zero it will last for infinitesimally small duration. Quantum mechanics can defy classical mechanics, but only upto Plank's constant.
This wonderful research was brought to you by: (source) The study, conducted by the University of Texas and sponsored by the Environmental Defense Fund and nine petroleum companies,. Main idea there was the gas leaks from fracking sites is more than estimated by EPA but much less than environmental groups.
One of the minor finding of this research was, compared to liquid hydrocarbons, the gaseous hydrocarbon burns cleanly and produces less carbon dioxide, but leaks more in the present day (paraphrased and emphasis by me) infrastructure. One would think the right thing to do is to plug the damned leaks, especially because the leakers are distributed according to power rule. (nothing to do with political power, power rule is a statistical term). Like 80% of crime committed by 20% of criminals, or 80% income earned by 20% of the employed, 80% of the leaks come from 20% of the leakers and 1% of the leakers basically account for 50% of all leaks. So it would be very cost effective to go after the leaks, plug it and make natural gas better than liquids as transportation fuel.
The immobile consumers of energy (offices, homes, factories) have alternatives to fossil fuels to varying degrees, mostly in the form of renewable electricity. But the transportation sector (except of electrified rail) relies totally on fossil fuels. Planes burn kerosene, no alternatives in sight. Trucks burn diesel some vague alternatives for delivery loops on the horizon, none for long distance haulers, yet. Diesel locomotives drag a long chain of LPG , CNG rail cars, but don't have the ability to use one of them as the fuel tank. But if the natural gas prices keep dropping, we can expect them to take a look. The railroads phased out all the steam locomotives and switched diesel in just one decade in 1950s. Cars have some alternatives within striking distance. No alternatives to fossil fules in sea cargo side either. The dependency of transportation sector on fossil fuels is not likely to be shaken for considerable future. Taking the effort to plug the leaks and switching to gaseous hydrocarbons instead of liquid hydrocarbons is the most viable thing to do to tackle climate change.
But all the manage to do is to stay engineers without being promoted or outsourced.
As far as I could make out the cypher is something like, the letter I is pronounced "eye", so replace I with E. The letter K is pronounced "kay" so K will be replaced with Y. Obviously the hash is many to one. Both B and I will map to E in English. Not sure it would be one-to-one in runes.
Of course he can hire you as a subcontractor and make you bear the responsibility of fixing it too, but your billing rate will be commensurate with that responsibility.
I am a HP employee who is black with yellow polka dots you insensitive clod.
All that happened was the emergence of bones/shells. This was the first thing that could fossilize. Everything earlier had just soft tissues and they did not fossilize well. So there was an "explosion" of fossilization, not necessarily speciation.
I don't want to pay for the overhead of a full fledged GUI. I like the speed of command line thank you very much. But picking the check sum to do cherry picks is a pain. Especially for me stuck in a stupid cygwin terminal in a Win7 box.
Developing the idea further, some kind of graphical/mouse pick from the output of git log --format="%h %an %s" origin/master..my_bug_fix_branch in a regular console window would be great. I would like to right-click on a line in a console window and get a context menu under the mouse cursor. The line under the cursor should be parsed and broken into %d %n %an etc be available to the git commands in the context menu.
I would have thought GOP would have preferred the name "Ante bellum" to be consistent with their views. (I mean present day GoP's views, not the views of GOP during antebellum era).
Personally, I would not like to lose my freedom of expression to express my views on, say, finite element analysis or mesh generation just because I work for a company making commercial products in that area. But if I ever edit the wiki article of my employer, I would make damn sure everyone knows my background so that my biases conscious or unconscious are corrected.
The democrats haven't been winning by huge landslides either. A small tweak from the Republicans stance, say being more open to Gay Marriage, or actually getting their act together on a good immigration policy could be enough to change the tide.
Dems are not winning by a landslide, that is true. The moment GOP moderates its stance it is going to lose a bulk of the moonbat crazy right wing that was preventing the Dem landslides. People who would prefer moderation immigration or gay issue are not going to switch in sufficient numbers to make up for the loss of crazy right wing. GOP has been riding the tiger. They have been trading away large number of moderate voters,( but whose voter turn out rate is low) to pursue the crazy nutjobs, who have smaller number but make up for it in voter turn out. But there is a limit to how much mileage you can get out of them. All that gerry mandering, bias in politics for small states with two senators each, natural accretion of dems in dense urban blocks, liberals in small red towns/counties/state moving to friendlier anonymous cities etc etc have all been exhausted to the limit. They have painted themselves into this corner, it is not easy to dig out of that hole (forgive my mixed metaphors).
Anyway within USA air travel for anything less than 400 miles have become a total waste of time. Given the distance of the air port to your actual destination, and distance between home and home departure airport, gate rape by TSA, lack of direct flights etc etc, often it is faster to drive or catch a bus.
The sad thing is, polluters follow the "power rule", that is 80% of the pollution is caused by 20% of the polluters, they use lobbying and public (mis)information campaigns that bias the general population against the civil service.
IT: You want answers?
Vamsi: I think I'm entitled to it.
IT: *You want answers?*
Vamsi: I want Bit9 logs.
IT: *You can't handle Bit9 logs*
[pauses]
IT : Son, we live in a network that has firewalls, and those firewalls have to be guarded by men with AVS. Who's gonna do it? You? You, Vamsi? We have greater responsibility than you could possibly fathom. You weep for your Simplorer bug. You curse the IT. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what we know. And our existence, grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves apps. You don't want Bit9 logs because deep down in places you don't talk about in parties, you want us on the firewall. We use words like DMZ, malware, payload and signature. We use those words as careers spent on defending something. You use them as punchline. We have neither the time nor the inclination to explain ourselves to the devs who code and email under the infrastructure we secure, and then question the manner in which we secure it. We would rather you just said thank you and went on your way. Otherwise I suggest you pick up a disk and update Barracuda. Either way, we don't give a damn what you think you are entitled to.
Vamsi: Did Bit9 lock up mt.exe?
IT: We did the job.. We...
Vamsi: *Did Bit9 lock up mt.exe?*
IT: You're goddamn right it did.
[If you have not figured it out by now, Vamsi is a developer whose build process (mt.exe) was getting killed Bit9. Vamsi suspected it and reported it many times, but IT would not even let him see the Bit9 logs to confirm this was the case].
Interesting, he raises his own pay by 10 million dollars and then blames Obamacare for 7 million dollar increase in "costs". Even if what this inveterate liar is saying is true, it works out to less than 2 bucks a day per employee.
The hacker has to physically install a dongle in the port, or plug the hard ware somewhere under the hood of the car. Once that is done, it would be possible to control the cars electronics remotely.
2. I need to set the filter level. I have learnt to work the behavior of the slider bar. I don't want something radically different, just something that works reasonably well.
2. I need to able to control the levels and see the posts chronologically. Sorting by insightful/informative/funny may be ok, but so many posts flip and flop between funny and insightful...
3. Pity if I lose interest and walk away. All 31 achievements... lost for ever.
Actually it would work to balance the load on the car rental businesses. Their biggest customers are business customers. That is why you see cheap deals on weekend rentals. So it is basically easy money for the rental companies.
Also time is ripe for rental car companies to offer a simple car rental accounts to electric car, bus/rail commuter, bicyclers, elderly etc. I imagine if they come up with a model like 50$ a month gets you two days of rentals, and the unused days accumulate, once the customers reach something like 28 days of rentals they just pay a small annual fee to keep the account current. The might even provide a couple of electric charging stations and brag about their green credentials.
Of course I wish you could install it in your living room. Given that the volume can kill a person, it is going to be more like dying room. But, please be my guest. Once all these noise obsessed people have knocked themselves out of the genepool, real music might emerge someday.
They introduce the allergens via skin patches, not as oral medications. So I am kind of sure eating venom will not confer immunity.
Hat tip to Dr Romulus Whitaker. He trained the traditional snake hunting tribes to switch to milking the venom and releasing the snakes back into the wild. Great work saving these great snakes, reducing vermin and saving a significant percentage of the harvest of that part of the world. Sadly he is completely allergic to anti-venom now, due to numerous treatment for snake bites in the past. So next bite he gets, he would die. Shows one could develop intolerance instead of tolerance by repeated exposure to toxins.
Well they are going hide a transmitter in an enslaved car, right? Everyone will be working on scanners to locate their transmitters. Even a single mom stuck on dead end planet who gave birth by parthenogenesis to a precocious son who is deep into pod racing sub-culture would be working on scanners.