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by zkms 10y ago
So I just learned my suggestion of using LN2/CO2 in an emergency refrigeration system isn't something I came up with -- LN2/CO2-powered backup refrigeration is in fact a standard option on ultra-low temperature freezers (the
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by zkms 10y ago
The irreplaceability of the ice cores is why in my opinion, an independent backup refrigeration system (without common points of failure) is a necessity, along with an independent system that can isolate the primary chillers and activate th
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by zkms 10y ago
https://www.ualberta.ca/news-and-events/newsarticles/2017/ap... There's more details about the causes of the failure at that URL: > the refrigeration chillers shut down due to “high head pressure” con
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by zkms 10y ago
> you can hear a "whining" sound as the device charges up. Ahhh, the good old DC-DC converter whine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coil_noise
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by zkms 10y ago
> The storage facility is normally chilled to –37°C. But the equipment failure allowed temperatures to rise to 40°C, https://www.ualberta.ca/news-and-events/newsarticles/2017/ap... There's more detai
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by zkms 10y ago
Lack of IOMMU and no memory protection on the Wi-Fi IC was really awkward (but sorta expectable). However, it's kinda shocking to me that they'd go to the trouble use a magic ethertype to tag internally-originating synthetic frame
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by zkms 10y ago
> This is the same that Verizon/Comcast wants to do. Provide an arbitrary service (i.e ISP) and also do something else with the data. > Maybe someone can help me understand the distinction between these two. The difference lies i
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by zkms 10y ago
> Not in this case; the main effect of deuteration is to slow the rate at which the active drug is metabolized and excreted. this reminds me of deuterating DMT (dimethyltryptamine) in order to fortify bonds that are targeted by MAO -- to
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by zkms 10y ago
Lovely!
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by zkms 10y ago
> Since we don't have our own particle accelerator to bombard the memory modules with in order to cause radiation-based errors I really want to see someone get some radioisotopes and place them next to both ECC and non-ECC RAM (whil
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CRLite: A Scalable System for Pushing All TLS Revocations to All Browsers [pdf](ccs.neu.edu)
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by zkms 10y ago
I frankly don't mind ads as long as they don't use up more CPU/network as the content i'm already viewing (battery isn't free) -- so no video ads if i'm reading text. Proper honest advertisements for actual pro
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by zkms 10y ago
> You must be in an NSFW ad bubble. No, i get the trypophobia-triggering (DON'T GOOGLE THAT WORD) chumbox images when browsing in incognito mode, without pre-existing cookies or anything else. This has nothing to do with my ad bubbl
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by zkms 10y ago
The worst type of ad on newspaper sites are the disgusting "chumboxes" (by scumsuckers like "taboola" or "outbrain") that orbit at the bottom of pages and serve up images meant to be as simultaneously repulsive
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by zkms 10y ago
Yeah, "designer drugs" -- the products someone trying to make a drug that works on the same systems but is different enough in structure from anything on a Controlled Substances list are bad news. The problem lies in the fact that
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by zkms 10y ago
> We're talking about overdosing and I don't think marijuana falls into that category. I mentioned the (commonly known) lack of marijuana overdoses to analogise it with the (lesser known) utter rarity of overdoses with smoked o
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by zkms 10y ago
> The root of the problem is doctor prescribed opiates. This is an extremely simplistic view that elides...most of what is going on, such as: 1) How poisoning/overdose deaths are reported by medical examiners -- something that varie
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by zkms 10y ago
These overdoses are an an expected and predicted consequence of opioid prohibition. See, before opioid prohibition, deaths from opioid use were quite rare. You ever heard a pothead drone on about "it's nearly impossible to overdos
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by zkms 10y ago
> What comes to mind in this situation is reminiscent of dystopian neo-Tokyo in movies, where everything is grim and the people have reclused from life in their cramped cities, into daily drug escapes. Right now we have a dystopia where
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by zkms 10y ago
> iTunes is the single worst piece of software I'm still forced to use. Yes. This very issue (the complexity and difficulty of properly using iTunes) has been commented on by a noted and famous Twitter user, btw: https:/&#x2F
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by zkms 10y ago
> I strongly suggest using a third-party DNS provider as well. I don't know the exact equipment and mechanisms used by ISPs today, but it's extremely likely that the surveillance works just based on sniffing every DNS pack
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by zkms 10y ago
> That essentially strips away an advantage local retailers and manufacturers would otherwise have against big, national companies like Amazon. Indeed -- my hope for "dig once" policies would be that they have an opposite effec
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by zkms 10y ago
> Is this just one way for the NSA to be able to tap into the major backbone now by mandating this type of stuff? I'm pretty sure NSA manages to get access to backbones just fine without the benefit of policies that try to expand th
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by zkms 10y ago
The "dig once" policy is a public subsidy for broadband in the same sense that a national roads network is a subsidy for FedEx or Amazon.com -- it indeed reduces the costs that operators need to pay to get into the market but ther
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by zkms 10y ago
> Ok, but the police cleared him of the charges. To be clear -- the police exonerating him took three years ("5 April 2014 he received a letter from Hertfordshire constabulary"), which is rather a long ordeal, especially becaus
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by zkms 10y ago
You keep saying "three weeks" but the actual process of exoneration took years -- not "three weeks". It would behoove you to look up the details of this case before making grandiose claims about this case. https:/&
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by zkms 10y ago
> Lang was bailed, but under strict and devastating conditions. Social services had visited his partner at home while he was being interviewed to conduct a “safeguarding assessment”, and it was decided he could not live at the family hom
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by zkms 10y ago
> But it's not a problem created by business owners providing housing to poor people (or ones evicting poor people who cannot pay). It's a problem created by state and municipal governments that make it illegal to build dense h
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by zkms 10y ago
No. Millimetre wave (and backscatter x-ray) imagery won't penetrate skin and certainly won't reveal the presence of contraband inside a human. There's commercially available penetrating X-ray human body security scanners, b
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by zkms 10y ago
An actual forensics investigator will not work on a single copy of any data -- they'll make a bit-for-bit image of the hard drive in question and just work with an image.

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