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How do you "not trust" your admin?

You have to put a second admin there, who knows as much, and then trust THEM.

How do you trust the second admin? Maybe that person is the problem instead!

You could put a complicated system of checks and balances in place and reward following draconian rules and reward informing on someone who calls out incorrectness... But you still have to trust them.

The only practical way to increase the reliability of the meat based "admin system" is to keep the meat informed, happy, well paid and motivated to share the goals of the company.

1420MHz is where they were looking, based on an assumption about what ET would do to transmit. Multiply it by Pi or 2xPi and there is reasonably empty space on the spectrum. It's also meaningful because you'd be looking at that frequency to map stuff in the universe. So, if you want to be seen, you use it, or a non-culturally-centric meaningful frequency.

It is the "electron flip" frequency of hydrogen. So it only means there were hydrogen atoms or hydrogen gas there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_line

It could be done without static data with different types of numbers. (Not primes.) There are a couple of irrational numbers that go on forever after the decimal point (Pi being the best known) that don't fall into infinite repeating ever. The implication being that any given string of numbers of arbitrary length, no matter how long, exists in Pi. (I read a proof of this somewhere maybe here about two decades ago.)

There is math that can determine what any given decimal is even at points farther beyond where people have "calculated the value X number of digits for Pi". So, using these numbers, you assume you can find the data set you want on the compression end, decompression could be done by getting a list of sections of Pi decimals. "Start here, end there" Calculate what's in between.

Given some start points, and then a "what's different about this frame" type compression you would have a number of more or less fixed-size data sets.

The file would consist of say 1000 reference frames of the movie and then data sets that tell you where to look in Pi to get the rest.

The decoder can do a bunch of math and it takes Pi or other irrational numbers and finds the sections of decimals by calculating them, and then inserts the resulting data into the movie file.

You end up with a math-heavy decoder... and an absolute nightmare of a sorting job to match arbitrary and unknown places in the decimal list of Pi at the compression end.

Just switch to Bing, DuckDuckGo, or one of the others.

Google will straighten up or get replaced.

Sitting around wishing they will get better on their own is a fool's errand.

A NAT device will drop non-internally initiated connection attempts unless the user has opened up ports to the inside (not many do) and somehow messed it up.

For purposes of this particular discussion, a NAT device can be lumped in with "firewall".

Domestic felines seem to need to be reminded of human inabilities frequently. My cat gets stepped on in the dark about once a year, not realizing she can't be seen in the middle of the floor. Once it's done, she gets up and moves when humans walk in the dark.

The main difference I see between "smelling" and "incidental smelling" animals is a distinct two directions to nostrils so bi-directional smell can be done close to something that you don't necessarily want stirred up. (dust). Cold enough to "see breath" and dog and cat breath goes out the sides, not down the middle.

You forgot massive debt and looming infrastructure disaster problem. They also have two narrowly missed dam disasters going on right now. And more on deck.

Someone is messing with the columns and DIVs on slashdot and has completely messed it up. Account information box floating all over the fucking place (hey, morons, I know who I am, I don't need it giant size right there on the screen) covering up content

Then they fixed that by shoving the column over to the left taking up half the screen.

Two words for you morons: "Staging" "Environment"

Then, maybe some "testing"

But whatever, the content, submissions, editing, and comments are all crap now too so I suppose it fits.

HTML5 is one of the few efficient ways of making a web site ADA accessible. A "requirement" now because ambulance chasing lawyers are starting lawsuits to get settlements if the site is not.

And WHY THE FUCK is the account box floating fixed over half the FUCKIGN CONTENT here now? Hey, idiots at Slashdot, I KNOW WHAT MY ACCOUNT NAME IS I don't need the FUCKING BOX FLOATING over the content I came to read.

You know... I would buy a non-refundable ticket in certain cases, even at a higher price... if it meant I could guarantee no bumping for that particular flight.

For some flights I care about it, for others the freebies they offer in exchange for a 6 hour delay getting to my destination are worth it.

Review a diagram of a current desalination plant.

Two things can declog. First, you can run the filter backwards for a short time, water in motion can dislodge built up material far in excess of the water that flowed forward gathering that material. Second, for salts themselves clogging, you let natural entropy take care of it for you.

These filters are often tubes through which high pressure water is added, cleaned water enters the outer jacket area and falls off. Higher salinity water continues down the tube at high pressure and is discharged.

It's this higher salinity (but not solid salt) water that carries would would be solid salt off the filter for discharge.

These engineering "gotchas" the amateurs are coming up with here have already been taken care of a long time. Current desalination plants work don't they? What do you think they do in those? Wave a magic wand?

It's not the title, it's the overly convoluted 'logic' used in the summary and quote.

WTF, why not just "pollution reduction of nuke plants causes drop in frequency of low birth rates." ?

Or even, "Pollution causes low birth rates. This study shows clean nuclear plants help prevent them."

It won't go anywhere once word gets out about how much more expensive it is. The service might last several years but people will learn.

Then it'll end up like MySpace.

What is this service going to do if the landlord or renter just decide to stop paying them? Most municipalities aren't going to tolerate some California company telling them they have to evict a renter.

In a market where there are more renters, or renters with "burn and churn" tech jobs or whatever, this will inflate rental prices faster than they would have otherwise gone up.

On the other hand, when rental prices fall (say, the big insurance company moves) in an area, it has the reverse effect of causing rental prices to crash fast... which will be extremely bad for landlords... especially ones that haven't paid their properties off.

It will have an amplifying effect on the speed at which the market adjusts.

I would expect to see shorter and shorter leases go along with this.

As a renter with impeccable credit, good cash flow and no "renter issues" on my record it would be nice to be able to get a place based on what I offer the landlord (stability, no bullshit) rather than having to basically walk into a viewing ready to write a deposit check. Some of the landlords I talk to have lots of horror stories about tenants so it might be useful if there is some sort of quality rating as well as price.

It will also be interesting to see how this tool effects the "go visit the place" part of the location search.