7, but I can't tell you how I know. Feel free to verify.

After a certain point, they could fill drives with the output of a real random number generator? Who's gonna check?

Ha-hah, only serious; but there's actually a really good answer for this. There is an algorithm for finding the Nth digit of Pi, and it's *fast*, not requiring you to compute previous digits. Thus, spot-checking the data for accuracy is very doable.

This reminds me of the good ol' days when Rob Cockerham sent in spray-painted trinkets to Cash 4 Gold. (warning expired cert).

He also gave out his Safeway card number to see what would happen if you spent $100s of thousands on one card. Not sure how that played out.

I miss the old Internet that didn't even care about SSL, and where pranks involved making companies looked silly instead of sucker-punching people.

Anyway, I hope they keep sending weird shit to companies. We need this.

You didn't actually comprehend what I wrote. The "next door" rule extends to "next office", and "adjacent activities". You should have inferred that from my proposal that they be BARRED FROM THE FINANCE BUSINESS FOR LIFE AND NOT ALLOWED TO LEAVE THE COUNTRY.

The next door rule is a colloquial way of expressing the idea that incarceration should be based on their odds of causing harm if living outside of bars, not a literal idea that release is only contingent on harm to immediate neighbors.

I don't care about punishment. I think it's petty. I go by the "would I want them next door?" or "what's the harm of letting them out?" rule. Also, I believe in humane economic confinement and listening to science on recidivism and such.

Anyway, it will cost a lot of money to incarcerate somebody that long. If he's next door to me, he's not a problem because he wasn't convicted of playing his music too loud. If he's able to participate in finance, that's the real demonstrated potential for harm so I say release him NOW, but don't give him a passport or let him participate in any kind of financial operation where he handles money, not even running the cash register... OK, maybe that; but you get the idea. No employment at any financial institution of any kind, not even as a temp or consultant. He's going to have to find another line of work, but I don't feel like feeding and housing him for the next 50 years.

Because New Jersey is approx. 5.8 times the size or Rhode Island. Kids these days. Probably doesn't even know how much a boatload is.

This has come up before and the idea is to put a magnet in space so that Mars rides the wake. Not sure exactly how this plays out, because they're talking about 1 or 2 Teslas, and then when I google that it's the strength of an MRI, but presumably needs to be that strong over a much greater distance.

The link mentions an "inflatable" structure, so I guess that's how they'd get the strong field out over a large enough distance.

Just skimmed it, not seeing anything about likely power source or requirements--obviously not a fully baked scheme; but sounds plausible. Next 100 years?

So then they'll be allowing people in to that SCIF they were talking about and/or prosecuting a bunch of people for giving false testimony before Congress and wasting our time? No? Why not?

They have no "street smarts" and it's kind of hilarious. There's a thread on X now where they allegedly yanked the "system prompt" out of Grok (Musk's AI on X) by asking it a simple question. I know next to nothing about AI; but apparently the SP is a simple set of prompt guidelines that are used to shape the output of a chat bot, and allegedly the Grok SP says not to be "woke". Of course this could all be made up too, either by bots, real people, or Grok itself. So just remember, everything I'm telling you is a lie.

But they are going to complain about corn, of all things?

I might think that too if I hadn't seen a documentary a few years back that talked about the importance of corn in the culture. It goes back to ancient times before the Conquistadors, and various regions all have local varieties. I'm given to understand that the introduction of US corn, GMO'd or not, caused a lot of cross pollination that made it difficult for them to maintain local strains. It's been a long time, but they seemed to indicate that it might have even been a significant factor in disrupting local economies and increasing migration across the border--though I doubt it's a huge factor now.

You can't delete something that's already been freed. They're going to have all kinds of problems.

Yeah, I didn't flip back to the article and relied on my memory instead. I typed the wrong *FC. All things considered though, I still think it's better that /. is not reddit.

CFCs are *ozone depleting*, and AFAIK may or may not also be GHG; but are primarily regulated due to their ozone layer impact. That these chemicals are harmful to the ozone layer is an entirely different topic, with far less controversy and politics swirling around it. Headline is just going for clicks by making it sound like he got arrested for having CO2 cartridges or breathing out too much water vapor--like the author of the headline.

Did you put the penny on the dry ice? metal "squeals when put on dry ice. Weird but cool effect.

I only saw the dry ice when the clerk was shoveling it in to the paper bag. I further wrapped that in plastic, and transferred it in to a cooler for the trip home. Plastic bag and all went right in to the freezer. I kept it away from my hands for obvious reasons. It was marble-sized chunks so I don't think I could have done that. The penny is always there on top of a block of wet ice, because if you open the freezer and see that the penny has sunk in, or worse sunk to the very bottom then you know that the freezer thawed while you were gone and the food is unsafe.

I was tempted to scoop out a little dry ice and put it in a drink for that cool smokey effect; but the adult in me prevailed.

We never canned, but my Dad taught me how to freeze vegetables, tomatoes in particular. When the garden is in full swing, I fill the freezer with tomatoes and corn niblets. It's great for soups and sauces throughout the Winter.

The advantage to canning is that you don't have to worry about the power going out. The disadvantage is that you can kill yourself more easily if you screw it up. It's rare, but it can happen. I'm not sure what the statistics are on home canning vs. factories.

I fill empty freezer space with "ballast" of water as the stock goes down. Reason? Power outages. Even in warm weather, you can keep things frozen for 3 days if you don't open the door! We had a week long outage one time, and I was able to buy dry ice. On day 3, I swapped out wet ice for dry. Each day I replaced the dry ice bag. It worked like a champ. The penny on top of the ice block didn't sink in at all.

This is cheaper than buying and maintaining a generator, which some neighbors do. I don't consider myself a "prepper", but the way things have gone here in fire country the past several years, you sort of get driven to do these things. None of my neighbors had a generator when I moved up here. Now the next-door neighbor has one, and the neighbor across the street, and you hear the hum of motors throughout the neighborhood whenever the power goes out.