Topics on my particular interests.
I wish this stuff had existed twenty years ago (or that I’d known about it then). It could have saved me a lot of time scrubbing. Assuming it works, anyway. I’ll have to try it some time, though I rarely work with grease and oil anymore.
As I’ve long suspected, the scientists sounding the Global Warning alarm have been playing fast and loose with the data. Deliberately. I understand some of the reasons for it: if they had told the truth, intelligent people would have dismissed the problem, quite reasonably demanding more information before taking the problem seriously. And by the …
A failure to think through the consequences.
I was discussing our password security schemes with Ploni over (encrypted) e-mail recently, which reminded me of a post I recently saw on the subject that uses a different take: an MD5 hash of a file or phrase as the core. (Interesting idea, though not as convenient as simply learning to remember secure passwords.)
I’ve never been able to understand people who reject scientific evidence outright, in favor of whatever their chosen authorities dictate. (I recently saw a quote that sums it up: “[T]he problem with all the “science deniers” is they think the argument is about power and “we” think it is about what reality is.”) The book …
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Ground-Source Heating. Nice to see that it’s getting more air time now, because it’s a great technology. I looked into it for our place last year, but determined that it would take a long time to pay for itself — far longer than we’re planning to stay in this house, and there’s no guarantee that …
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The answer, in my case, is probably not. At least for now. On the get-more-RAM side: I do use a several virtual machines (VMs) regularly. With eight gigabytes, I could open all of them at once, and increase the RAM available to each of them too, and still have plenty of RAM left over for …
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To me, this article is notable only because the disease (a cattle disease known as “Rinderpest”) would only be the second disease, after smallpox, that our efforts have eliminated. We like to think that we, as a race, are technologically advanced… but something like this points out just how far we still have to go.
Well, that would certainly explain a few politicians and TV personalities. 😉 (For all I know, he’s absolutely right. But I consider it pretty unlikely.)
Even fearsome venomous snakes should know never to mess with the Roomba.