Posts by Eddy Ito 4662 publicly visible posts • joined 27 Apr 2007
Let's not forget that one thing that raises the cost of every US nuclear installation is that construction is often delayed by protests and a combination of government incompetence and outright interference. As a native Mainer, I well remember the debacle that was the construction of Seabrook Station. Note there has only been one other nuclear power plant commissioned since and while there are a few currently under construction I think the present low cost of natural gas will sideline some of these.
If I'm not mistaken there is also a small population of Chinese water deer which is very similar to the musk deer, 'fangs' and all however water deer are actual deer, cervidae, where musk deer, moschidae, are not and may be more closely related to oxen and antelope than deer.
The only reason I bought this copy of Office 2011 was so that I can convert files from people who have the nerve to send me data in this horrific (something)x format (.docx, .xlsx), because I mainly use LibreOffice for wordprocessing and spreadsheet work, and Keynote for presentations.
Which LibreOffice version are you running? I've got 4.2 and it seems to handle all the docx, xlsx & pptx files I've thrown at it. The only problem I have is that MS Office Mobile 15 refuses to open anything LibreOffice has touched it until the file has been re-blessed by full fat MS Office.
I'm sorry but "over the top" has always meant 'to surpass a goal or exceed expectations'. It could also be used to indicate anything excessive, gaudy or gauche. Somehow a trend of calling the internet 'the top' has replaced the original meaning especially since crappy TV shows almost never live up to expectations much less exceed them. I suppose it must be being used in the gauche sense.
I still don't fully understand why Fox News generates so much hate for doing the exact same thing the others do.
Simple, if the news site in question goes with your particular flow then it's fine. I suspect Fox just rubs some folks the wrong way. I've taken to looking at news shows as performance art with an air of situational comédie noire.
Don't sweat it AC, your bible bearing brethren on this side of the pond are no different from your anti-Christian cohorts. I honestly couldn't count how many times I've been told that I'm going to hell and need to be saved, that I should repent, etc. or how many times I've pointed out that the whole concept of hell is at odds with a Christian God. Don't know how your boss is but there's always filing a complaint if it's a hostile work environment.
How well atheism goes down really depends on where in the US you are. There is a huge difference between the Northeast corner of the country and the bible-belt. While working on a project for a bit near Rocket City a weekend drive through the countryside revealed there are probably more baptist churches per square mile than there are coffee shops in NYC.
In California it seems to me that San Fran/Berkeley really don't care much about religion where LA/OC has a much higher religiosity index where it's typically only the Christians and the very few evangelical atheists that are particularly vocal about it. To be fair, the evangelical atheists have a point since many of the Christian groups are militant in suppressing other religions through either conversion, obstructing the founding of temples or intimidation*.
*Where a gang of a dozen wannabe apostles park themselves at all corners of an intersection shouting through a bullhorn about how they have been saved from their gang member days of burglary, assault, murder, etc and I can understand how that might be intimidating in a reserved predominantly Asian community where the local command of English isn't the best. I don't find their actions intimidating since it was a busy lighted intersection but I certainly wouldn't want to meet any of them alone in a deserted parking lot or a dark alley.
The value of your financial information and potentially your financial security and identity is deemed by the government to be $32.79. Is it any wonder why recent data breaches have been met with a shrug? In case you're wondering, according to ITRC (PDF) we're up to 621 breaches this year.
So, on a zero-sum basis, it's simply a transfer of wealth from the former US worker making $25/hour with benefits to the corporation exporting the job. The Chinese worker did not get all the wages of the US worker. The difference was pocketed by the corporation.
You're assuming that it is a zero-sum basis, it's not. For the same money, $25/hr, the company can hire several Chinese workers at $3.25/hr ($6500/year) and even if they aren't as productive seven of them will likely exceed the output of the single US worker with little difficulty. It also keeps the company competitive in their industry which they may not have been and the change could easily mean they don't have to shut the doors which would still put the US worker out of a job as well as the seven Chinese workers. Yes, I know that some jobs will likely open up at their competitors in order to make up for the reduced supply if the first company does go out of business but that's another story.
Not to be impolite but, you're just noticing now?
Yes but LA is special. It's the only place while walking out of a store I've been stalked by someone looking for a parking space only to have them turn around when it was clear I was parked further than they wanted. I kind of knew it was coming since there were several open spaces next to me at the end of the lot.
More like a case of bad timing on the part of the FBI. Surely they must know there's an election in two weeks and all 435 Representatives and 33 Senators are trying to keep their jobs. It's best to hold the applause for the congresscritters and see what happens on this score in the next few months.
The repurchasing is debt-funded because bringing the cash currently held by 'foreign' business units into the US means it would be taxed which would likely mean instead of this mornings ~$102 per share it would effectively cost them about $157 per share. The interest rate on the debt would have to be startlingly high to make it more expensive over the repayment period.
That may be true but it's still possible on my not quite antique daily driver. Still, a wheel should spin quite freely. Perhaps it's the seals on the newer bearing as I've seen several on capital equipment that were quite heavy initially but the friction usually drops considerably after a bit of running.
I'm sorry but you've obviously tightened the nut a bit too tight. I've built, and rebuilt, many vehicles starting with a '51 Willy's 4-73 pickup and at no time have I ever had an undriven wheel not spin freely for many revolutions after repacking the bearings and reinstalling the wheel.
As a rule of thumb, as much as I hate that term, the bearing only need be tight enough to prevent off-axis motion so I'm thinking go a half a turn, depending on where the castle nut lines up with the hole, beyond where it obviously seats but no more or snug it up and back off a half a turn, either way should get you in a reasonable ballpark.
I'm sure there may be manuals that say tighten to "X" ft-lbs, but that's largely shite if you think about it since there is no way they can know the exact taper of the conical bearing, nominal maybe but exact never. You tell me, what's the derivative of the sine of the bearing angle? Yeah, approximations are ok but certainly not gospel.
On a similar note, I'll add that the author misses what is to me an obvious point. The wheels, given their contribution to the acceleration of the vehicle - a wheel / tire combination that has a larger portion of the mass on the perimeter is harder to accelerate than an equal mass wheel / tire combination where the mass in concentrated in the center.
More often than not the latest fad is to have a large diameter, low mass rim paired with a large diameter tire and it doesn't optimize the acceleration since a smaller wheel with a larger sidewall may, actually more often than not, provide a better moment of inertia and therefore less work to accelerate to a given velocity.
These types of civil asset forfeiture laws need to be challenged in the federal courts all the way to the Supreme Court inasmuch as they are nothing more than an end run around the Fourth and Fifth Amendments. Unfortunately few people are sufficiently knowledgeable or financially able to mount such a challenge especially after their assets have been taken. I've got a dollar that says that the police are very well trained to pick folks who either won't or can't fight back.
Delay to put everything away - well that's a bit suspicions isn't it?
So what you're saying the best method is to say you were mid extrusion in the bog. We all know you can't flush when the plod are at the door lest they think you're disposing of evidence so to keep it believable you'll need to keep a log or two in a zip top bag for ready deployment into the bowl as evidence. Just don't forget to wipe your fingers before you answer the door as that would be a bit rude.
It's not that bad, IIRC there are only about 6,500 simplified and about twice as many traditional characters in typical computer systems. I also believe there are only about 50k unique characters in total but I've heard some claim it is closer to 80k. Even in China I think literacy is defined as knowing about 2,000 characters even though it would probably require knowing 3-4,000 characters to read a typical newspaper. I think to get into the tens of thousands of characters you'd need to find someone who is quite well educated.
The reason a few strokes can identify a character is because many homophones look quite distinct from one another and a few strokes will clearly identify the difference. For instance the character for male is 男 which is pronounced nán and difficult, 難 (traditional, 难 simplified), is pronounced and intonated exactly the same way and may not necessarily be distinguishable from context. In comparison horse 馬 (马) and mom 媽 (妈) have the same pronunciation but differ in tone.
Stroke order, generally top left to bottom right, is so you don't smudge the ink and your characters are clear. In calligraphy the customary brushes also produce a distinctive look to the stroke such as making it taper in a certain way and there is substantial value placed on the look of the characters.
As for inputting text into computers and phones there are a myriad of methods including stroke input and handwriting recognition. I would think that merely observing someone wouldn't really tell you which method they were using. For a while I was using a handwriting recognition package that had a mode which accepted zhuyin.
I don't see why they couldn't create a graphical interpretation of the software and claim it's art that is exportable under freedom of expression. That way you only need some sort of quasi compiler that a bitmap into software which isn't a "weapon". I know, it's just a spin on Phil Zimmermann's printing the PGP source code as a book but twisted for the QR code generation.
The walls have to be thick if they are going to absorb the ~14.1 MeV of kinetic energy from the neutons as that indicates they are stepping out rather vigorously. Also consider that, assuming they capture the full 17.6 MeV of each reaction, the 10 second run is going to use a little less than 3 mg of fuel which means that if it could run continuously it would use less than a gram per hour while putting out 100 MW. If it works, and I really hope it does, the phrase "this changes everything" won't be that much of an overstatement.
Just point a perps face at a mobe, and hey look, it unlocked.
I can see a potential use for hacking the code whereby it also recognizes a particular expression. If they try to force you to unlock it the appropriate expression would automatically scramble everything inside to ensure it was unrecoverable. The hard parts are of course training it and picking an expression that you won't accidentally make when goatse'd.
Most modern refrigerators have other controls besides thermostats. One of the more significant is a pressure sensor that signals the compressor to hold off on restarting until the pressure has bled down a bit to reduce the inrush current when it does start so as not to blow a circuit breaker. Historically refrigerators are on their own circuit for this very reason since if the fridge tried to start while another appliance was running, such as a simple coffee maker, it could easily trip the breaker/fuse and you could return from work to a rather unpleasant circumstance.
This is where I see smart appliances actually being useful since a fridge or freezer can hold off starting so they don't cause a spike that takes the circuit down. That way if a fridge and coffee maker are on the same 1800 watt circuit and the fridge only needs 500 watts to run but 1500 watts to start it could tell the 900 watt coffee maker to pause while it started and resume once it dropped below the threshold.
As for the "we need X" IoT fridge, I'm married and get/send these texts already depending on who is out. The only time I come home and find I've not picked up something we need is when we're all out together.
offer the public a simpler and infallible test of fatness
How about height divided by max girth about the belly. I'd think if that ratio is less than 1 it may indicate an excess of adipocytes, a ratio near 2 might be close to normal and 3 would be stick figure territory. Maybe the denominator should be an average of hips, gut and chest to account for where different people may carry weight.
@Dr. Ellen
It's worse, the theory that "normal" BMI is healthy could be wrong and it certainly seem improper for schools to say children are overwieght based on BMI. If we look at some illconceived correlations we can find that age has a bearing on body fat and BMI as shown in both the "children" and "adult" equations at the bottom of this page yet the initial BMI equation doesn't make any such distinction. I know when I'm being walked through a field of cow patties yet I'm stunned by how many people can't see they are standing on shit.
A quote for the ages from the NYPost article linked above "why should I believe the New York Department of Education?” - perfect.
Only if the vulnerability is publically known. See above.
You'll need to define "publicly known" since a small group of thieves could discover and exploit the vulnerability for quite some time before the general public finds out, perhaps by noticing that their savings balance is suddenly zero or their credit card is maxed out.
"You can take the hardware and install Debian just fine, with ext. or you can simply buy a non-Chromebook laptop."
If one currently owns a Chromebook and use it with ext(n) formatted media, why should that person be forced to change the operating system because Google wants to drop support in a future automatic update? It really is saying "thanks for the cash, now go pound sand".
Can we even accurately measure it given the signal is mixed with every other electrical device in the home? Sure, we can put meters on individual appliances and work it out but is there any simple way to say "X" is lighting. Does it get more complicated given the ambient light cast off by the myriad devices in our lives like computer and TV screens and the dozens of other devices with luminous displays even if it's just a green led on the router, a red one on the switch and a blue one on the modem? At some point we're just picking, err, nits.
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