Comment Re:GoldieBlox Scores Big (Score 1) 347
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One thing's for sure: it's not Cheep.
the big Superb Owl ad frenzy
One thing's for sure: it's not Cheep.
You clearly allow transferable organs, but where's the line? No nervous system tissue? What about quadriplegics injured in an accident, would that be so wrong?
What if that organ is the brain, and you can't guarantee perfect or even "reasonably good" memory transfer? Are they still the same person, and would you still want that if they end up acting very differently afterwards? Would you be dooming a new person to suffer the memories of the other person who used to have their body?
It's not as theoretical as it might sound. I have a friend who suffered tumor-induced amnesia. Her memory has recovered better than having to ask that question in her case, but after the onset of dementia you might run into that very thing. Another friend of mine is losing a grandmother to organ failure and dementia, and it's hard to say when she stopped being herself but it's mostly agreed that she is not, in fact, the woman her family used to know. At what point do you let go? In the grandmother's case, it seems unethical that humane euthanasia is illegal in her jurisdiction. Would I rebuild her brain if I could? I don't know.
Sounds to me this is more of an approach rather than a specific implementation. TFA talks about specific data types, such as credit card numbers and passwords. Reading between the lines, it seems like something that would be set up with input from a knowledgeable system administrator or hard-coded for a specific purpose; password manager is specifically mentioned.
So you write this program such that the data type information is not part of the encrypted data but explicitly provided as (for instance) a map that corresponds to valid password characters. After the algorithm is run on the encrypted data, you simply write the computed output to an integer value, and convert to ASCII using the aforementioned map (or, as you've mentioned, compression scheme). Similar methods are used to scale certain random number generating functions to any particular number range. This way, any binary dataset can be converted to text, but whether it's the real data or not is impossible to guess because it's by definition valid ASCII text. You're then free (as the user) to XOR the raw binary with whatever key your algorithm produces based on the master password typed by the user in order to produce the stored value.
Since I am not an expert in this field, the fact that it seems pretty trivial to me probably means either it's not new, and therefore not newsworthy, or there's some detail here that makes it special in some arcane way or niche application.
I don't know if she was the first source for this, but it's a fun series to follow, for those who don't know
Nevertheless the smithies used to manufacture and maintain the mining equipment (not to mention all other other goods produced with the mined ore) burn lots of carbon, probably coal. That's as big an oversight as the fact that so much diesel is burned in the production of ethanol that it's still worse than just putting gasoline in your commuter car.
Your statement therefore is: myopic
What about stem cells, taken as an embryo, but that can be used later on the then-grown adult? I daresay it's the best of both worlds. Doesn't apply to us participating in the thread right now obviously, but why shouldn't it be possible in a decade?
That is unless, of course, the adult stem cells are equally as useful as the embryonic ones, but even so I'd worry about radiation-induced genetic copy-errors as I get old. So, keep the "original" genes pure in some ultra-hardened bio-vault. Hell, keep the line alive and grow me a new body every 30-40 years or so; sounds like a future I'd want to survive to see. But we need to test it to find out if the adult-stem cells really are just as good for a multitude of purposes (and for those of us that didn't get the biopsy in pre-birth checkup), and for that we need at least a control group of embryonic cells to test with.
So if your XP installation is corrupted I can not fix it
What, can't be bothered to do a Repair Install? Sure, it's not a silver bullet and it takes longer than SFC, but it works great most of the time, and at least in XP you could do it without having to fully boot to the installed OS. I've found SFC to be fairly useless in 7 as well.
Of course, if I ever have to press F6 to load a driver from a floppy disk again, it will be too soon.
Where there's a will, there's a relative.