Your right, should have been polyamide.

Like many ceramics they note that it chips rather than breaks. So you could "chip away at it". Also the material very likely has an impact stress point beyond which it will explode when impacted. So it is bullet proof up to a point. They say that it doesn't need to be layered, but in practice I'll bet they layer it with Kevlar or a similar material with complementary properties.

I believe back in the 90's activists in some U.S. cities got their cities to stop adding fluoride to the supplies. Bad mineral exchanges immediately started to occur in the piping because of the accumulated minerals in the pipes which included a fluoride component started reacting with the water that no longer contained fluoride causing the water to become contaminated by minerals other than just fluoride. The water not only tasted bad, it was determined that it was not safe to drink.

It takes decades for the minerals in the piping to accumulate and it will take decades to slowly taper fluoride away if we want to avoid unintended consequences. I know the mineral content of water varies widely across supply sources so some cities may have no related problems and some could have severe problems.

The article states "the encryption method used was devised in 1998 and is weak by today’s standards ... Microsoft has yet to release a patch to fix the Redirect to SMB vulnerability" as if Microsoft must remove the feature in order for Cylance to consider this resolved. Instead a number of improvements have been made to SMB since 1998 include support for HMAC-SHA256 (v2.0) and AES-CMAC (v3.0) hashing. http://www.windowsecurity.com/.... You are going need a little more than "$3000 worth of GPUs" to forward brute force the AES-CMAC hashed passwords.

Easy to stand up, difficult to maintain. The people who created this site probably were lowest-bidder IT contractors with little programming experience. The page template looks like it is doing a string comparison of the browser version against "6" to see if they need to load fixup code. This is probably just original boiler plate code provided by Microsoft; "10", "11", ... will cause this IE6 support code to get loaded which then makes things worse rather than better. The people who created this site are long gone and the people who work there probably are going through the processes of getting permission to hire a contractor to fix it which includes adding it to the next budget cycle. Clearly none of them have the ability to go in and delete 3 lines from the page template.

Half a cent per gallon is 7,727 times MORE per gallon than a Los Angeles resident typically pays if they manage to stay in Tier 1 pricing all year. For facts concerning Los Angeles water rates see: https://www.ladwp.com/ladwp/fa... .

You are orders of magnitude off in understanding pricing in the water commodity market. Not that RO can't be done, just about every golf course and condo Cabo San Lucas BSC MX is watered via reverse osmosis. However, the valuations of each of those condos is in the millions per 1,000 sq ft so the investment makes sense for the developers. When the average home price in California picks up a couple more digits, RO will make perfect sense.

Instead lets call the result of an election that does not have a majority of participants NULL. In the case of a congressional election, no one fills the seat. This will drive candidates back to the center. Our current system that has party members pandering to the extremes in their parties which results in a dysfunctional, polarized Congress.

It bugs me that from the beginning the MH370 disappearance does not seem to first be being approached as a possible criminal act. Were there any outrageous insurance claims following the flight? Were known drug kingpins contacted about losses that wouldn't normally be reported? Was there something on that plane worth (to an appropriately depraved mind) killing all of those people for?

Put it in a phone and see who it was reporting to.

Charge a lot and have some associated token luminaries... That's how.

There is a reason the venture capitol people like this. The vast majority of University money goes to facilities, not lecturers. These people have eliminated facilities but are not charging 10%, they are charging 50%. That's pure profit baby!

This is a loss of $24,090 per employee. In the US, this company would fire 1/3 of its employees, demand the rest work 60 hour weeks and would recover in two years from a loss like this. None of that can happen in Europe. Instead the government will give them a 'loan'. They can't really buy more shares to resolve the issue at this point since the shares should be worth nothing.

Most refactoring that I have observed over the last 30+ years was done primarily because the person handed the code did not understand it as it was. The refactoring process is very often the process through which a new developer figures out how old code works. Everyone likes to think that their refactoring was some sort of improvement over the previous code base, but the truth is this is only likely to be true about half the time. Considering that inexperienced engineers do more refactoring than experienced engineers, refactoring probably only brings actual improvement of any form to the code base less than half the time. The big plus is you now have a new guy that has ownership of something in the product. This benefit is hard to quantify, but should not be underestimated.

Apple made the business decision to have the instant credit provided by a 3rd party. There was a lot of money to be made in this channel and Apple is sitting on billions in cash so why did Apple not provide the credit directly? Because they knew this would be abused and they couldn't put a solid number on the potential downside. There are probably some interesting emails to be subpoenaed by an enterprising attorney on this subject. I would guess the Apple CFO would have been for offering the credit directly and the CMO against it.

This will find the static interaction points, but will miss the dynamic interaction points. He also has to watch for callbacks and methods present to satisfy oddball templates in C++, methods that will be invoked as a result of casts, etc.

We ruthlessly study the digestive biology of commercial animals. We perform surgery on thousands of cows, sheep and goats to intercept their food as it passes through their system and we study their excrement in excruciating detail. Commercial operators know exactly how lean the beef will be based on the animal's food. We don't come close to doing this humans. Humans also don't eat the same thing every meal which greatly complicates the entire study. But at no point would we study humans in the way we do commercial animals.