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@Zecc That's the standard procedure for many brain surgeries. The patient does whatever they are good at and shall not be affected (or shall be improved as in this case) by the surgery and the surgeons watch for any effects on it when they touch various parts of the brain and even put little numbered marks on the brain when they find a sensitive area.
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@Bulb Which begets the question of what would happen if instead of a violinist they were operating on a brain surgeon.
Filed under: it's brains all the way down
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
@Zecc That's the standard procedure for many brain surgeries. The patient does whatever they are good at and shall not be affected (or shall be improved as in this case) by the surgery and the surgeons watch for any effects on it when they touch various parts of the brain and even put little numbered marks on the brain when they find a sensitive area.
In the case of this playing violinist, some parts of his brain will have been deeply touched.
Filed under: I'll be here all week, And the one after that, Please send help
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I don't know if "Canadian telecom giant continues to produce self-serving lies" is really news, per se, but they're doing it again:
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From the abstract:
The devices produce a sustained voltage of around 0.5 volts across a 7-micrometre-thick film, with a current density of around 17 microamperes per square centimetre. We find the driving force behind this energy generation to be a self-maintained moisture gradient that forms within the film when the film is exposed to the humidity that is naturally present in air. Connecting several devices linearly scales up the voltage and current to power electronics.
I was skeptical when I saw TFA (not familiar with SciTechDaily) but they got published in Nature. The next perpetual motion / cold fusion? Or free energy?
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@boomzilla Well, proteins usually have a bit of a stability problem and I'm also not entirely sure how they're getting the moisture out of this device again.
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@Rhywden yeah. Looooots of questions.
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Presumably they'll conduct a rigorous review of their "feature" that asks you to rate whatever random store or restaurant you just walked into
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
In other news today, the robust competitive landscape that is the Canadian mobile industry continues apace:
"But wait," you say, as if you know anything about the Canadian mobile industry, "isn't there a third national wireless provider? Surely they have something else to offer"
Well, they already offered that same plan as of a couple days ago (the relative date says 1 day but it's more like 1 day and some change)
Here's the same thing again:
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@hungrier Didn't work for AT&T (see Carterfone or MCI), didn't work for BT (see Openreach), not gonna work for Bell. Hopefully.
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla Well, proteins usually have a bit of a stability problem and I'm also not entirely sure how they're getting the moisture out of this device again.
Oh that's easy, they'll just bake it!
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
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@Carnage "Piles" is British for "hemorrhoids", hope this helps clear things up for you
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@Carnage "Piles" is British for "hemorrhoids", hope this helps clear things up for you
Perfect, it all makes sense now.
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
Here's the same thing again:
Competition is so great here in Canada, we've got so much innovation and variety in price plans and promotions. Right now the major providers are offering:
- Rogers: 20 GB for $85/month
- Bell: 20 GB for $85/month
- Telus: 20 GB for $85/month
"But that last one--"
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@boomzilla Looks interesting. Doesn't say anything about how toxic it is to humans, or to other types of bacteria that we might not want to kill off. That's the tricky part with antibiotics.
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@Mason_Wheeler yeah, they mention that the next step is to look at more selective compounds. Also, it sounds like they haven't gotten to human trials, but I suspect that if you have something that kills otherwise resistant bacteria you probably care a bit less about its selectivity (though toxicity is obviously still important). Good to have a backstop for the current last resorts.
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
Maybe not "cure", but it would probably cut down the pain for at least a little while.
I've taken to using Anbesol for this purpose.
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
Climate Change solved. Who would have thought it would be this easy?
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
From the abstract:
The devices produce a sustained voltage of around 0.5 volts across a 7-micrometre-thick film, with a current density of around 17 microamperes per square centimetre. We find the driving force behind this energy generation to be a self-maintained moisture gradient that forms within the film when the film is exposed to the humidity that is naturally present in air. Connecting several devices linearly scales up the voltage and current to power electronics.
I was skeptical when I saw TFA (not familiar with SciTechDaily) but they got published in Nature. The next perpetual motion / cold fusion? Or free energy?
17 micro amps at 0.5 volt per square centimeter...... that's 0.0000085 watts per square centimeter.... so if you have a square meter of film (and assume that it scales linearly up to that scale) that's 0.085 watts per square meter..... or about enough power to run the display on a digital watch (the LCD kind not the smart kind) so not exactly a blistering energy density. and layering the cells gets tricky because you make the layers too close and you starve the middle ones of the moisture they need..... then there's the fact proteins tend to be...... delicate.... so the longevity of the device may eb suspect.
yeah this is likely to end up being the next "Free energy" thing. except that technically this actually does produce energy..... just not that much of it.
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@Vixen On the other hand, this is the v0.1 edition. Iterate on it a few times, and it's quite possible we'll end up with higher efficiency. (It's also very possible that that won't happen and 0.085 W/m2 is as good as it gets, but it's more fun to be optimistic.)
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@Mason_Wheeler said in In other news today...:
@Vixen On the other hand, this is the v0.1 edition. Iterate on it a few times, and it's quite possible we'll end up with higher efficiency. (It's also very possible that that won't happen and 0.085 W/m2 is as good as it gets, but it's more fun to be optimistic.)
i mean i'd love for them to come up with a formulation that lasts 5 years and can produce a consistent 50w/square meter with a 10cm gap between layers.... that would be awesome, and ~500W/cubic meter that would be amazeballs.
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@Mason_Wheeler said in In other news today...:
it's more fun to be optimistic
Yes, you do have a certain reputation for optimism — some might say unwarranted optimism — for certain technologies. But this isn't the Garage, so I'll just leave it at that.
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@boomzilla Filed under: why is this news?!
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@topspin it's more interesting than the price of mobile service in Canada.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@topspin it's more interesting than the price of mobile service in Canada.
Well, we could talk about the chilling effects of the pricing, but so that's expected…
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@topspin it's more interesting than the price of mobile service in Canada.
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Speaking of things that aren't really news:
According to Gadgets 360, Google is only doing this to the new Edge, not any of the other Chromium-based browsers.
It’s also worth noting that Google doesn’t mention anywhere how or why it’s more secure to use Chrome Extensions on the full version Chrome instead of Edge.
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@topspin it's more interesting than the price of mobile service in Canada.
She kind of looks like she's taking a massive dump.
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
a billion times better than expected
Obligatory "1e9 x 0 equals 0" or "1e12 x 0 equals 0" (depending on your definition of "billion").
Jokes aside, I sure hope this is good news.
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*didn't read* Is the reactor tubular or gnarly?
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No, this one is a sphere with holes and lasers.
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@Dragoon from the country that brought us such classics thoughts as the laws of physics being subservient to the laws of Australia, eh? They could be right in this case, but I expect bold claims from there.
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I view it like all fusion tech, 10-20 years away from realization.
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
I view it like all fusion tech, 10-20 years away from realization.
For the last 50 years.
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In a shocking turn of events, PayPal continues to be somewhere between "dicks" and "evil".
https://cybernews.com/security/we-found-6-critical-paypal-vulnerabilities-and-paypal-punished-us/
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@anonymous234 From the article, it sounds more like HackerOne are the bigger dicks
When we pushed the HackerOne staff for clarification on these issues, they removed points from our Reputation scores, relegating our profiles to a suspicious, spammy level. This happened even when the issue was eventually patched, although we received no bounty, credit, or even a thanks. Instead, we got our Reputation scores (which start out at 100) negatively impacted, leaving us worse off than if we’d reported nothing at all.
I forget who, what or when, but I seem to recall there was another case where someone tried to submit a bug to some project on HackerOne and they also got screwed
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@hungrier And that is exactly why I don't mind Microsoft using Windows to push Edge. Not like they're succeeding at that either.
Also isn't this libel or slander or something in that category? "That product is less secure" is a pretty specific and damaging claim. I don't think Pepsi would be allowed to say "Coca-Cola bottling plants are dirtier than ours".
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@hungrier I think HackerOne will be finding their reputation score relegated to a negative level pretty soon if they keep doing things like these.