Kazumara @ Kazumara @discuss.tchncs.de

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The linked video is a bit unclear to me. The don't explain the modes well. Mostly it seems to just show heat. According to the description it's a Teledyne FLIR G620, which should be able to detect Methane and other VOCs. But it's not clear to me how we are supposed to distinguish hot rising CO2 and H2O from any potentially leaking Methane, in those pictures.

Video in question https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4prazMVylRs

This week I heard from a network group lead of a university hospital, that they have a similar issue. Some medical devices that come with control computers can't be upgraded, because they were only certified for medical use with the specific software they came with.

They just isolate those devices as much as possible on the network, not much else to do, when there is no official support and recertification for upgrading. And of course nobody wants to spend half a million on a new imaging device when the old one is still fine except for the OS of the control computer.

Sounds like a shitty place to be, I pity those guys.

That said, if you were talking about normal client computers then it's inexcusable.

That's always so annoying, because Windows isn't my default boot entry, so I need to babysit its "totally not a reboot" update.

overstaying the terms of his visa

He arrived in the US on 30 April

Hm weird. If he's Italian, wouldn't he have an ESTA authorization under the Visa Waiver Program for 90 days usually?

though you’d need to supply power

Go for really old ones with the crank handle for ringing. Like from army surplus and you don't need the power :-)

We played around with these for a day in the army https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feldtelefon_50 when you crank the handle while your friend is still putting down the line you can shock them.

6 arc seconds, not a very well rounded individual

Friend of mine had the same scenario in high school. The only one who knew was the twin sister of the girlfriend. The rest of the family would never have accepted a non-muslim. It's probably the only way to do this until she's an adult and can tell them to fuck off.

Pre-UEFI they were fighting over the boot sector, sure, but now that everything is more well defined, and every OS can read the FAT32 ESP? Never seen it...

At worst the UEFI boot entry is replaced. There are some really shitty UEFI implementations out there which only want to load \efi\microsoft\boot\bootx64.efi or \efi\boot\bootx64.efi, or keep resetting you back to those.

Assuming you were dumped into Windows suddenly, you can check if you have the necessary boot entries still with bcdedit and its firmware option

    
bcdedit /enum firmware


  

If you just have a broken order you can fix it with

    
bcdedit /set {fwbootmgr} displayorder {<GUID>} /addfirst


  

If you actually need a new entry for Linux it's a bit more annyoing, you need to copy one of the windows entries, and then modify it.

    
bcdedit /copy {<GUID1>} /d "Fedora"
bcdedit /set {<GUID2>} path \EFI\FEDORA\SHIM.EFI
bcdedit /set {fwbootmgr} displayorder {<GUID2>} /addfirst


  

Where GUID1 is a suitable entry from windows, and GUID2 is the one you get back from the copy command as the identifier of the new entry. Of course you will have to adjust the description and the path according to your distro and where it puts its shim, or the grub efi, depending on which you'd like to start.

Edit: Using DiskGenius might be a little more comfortable.

I am not a computer science major, I studied linguistics.

We're not falling for your deceit, Noam Chomsky. You probably used some context-free grammar to hack the website.

it’s much easier to just substract 2 from 2000, “IIMM” duh!

For anyone wondering why this is wrong, there are two reasons:

1. The roman numeral system only traditionally contains subtractions from the next higher five- and tenfold symbol. So you can subtract I from V and X, X from L and C, C from D and M
2. The subtractions only generally allowed one symbol to be subtracted, with a few notable exceptions like XIIX for 18 and XXIIX for 28

Given 4/6 x > 5/6 y therefore x > 5/4 y

Marty's Pizza must have been more than a quarter larger than Luis'. The kid is exactly right.

And the teacher is not flexible enough to engage outside their expectations for how the question was supposed to be answered.

Clearly the expectation was for the kids to take the unstated assumption that the two pizzas were of the same size, and reject the premise as unreasonable (note the heading "Reasonableness").

Okay good. I thought it would, just didn't know any specifically. I wasn't trying to suggest a public blockchain would be the only solution or even the best of multiple solutions, only that they needed to consider more angles beyond just making a hash.

Secession, the other word means following someone in a role

With your scheme you can't prove the timing of when the hash was made, nor who made the hash. At the very least the camera would have to include something that proves the time in the hash, and then sign the result with a private key that can't be extracted from the camera.

When I played 1 and 2 in a similar mindset as you, I eased the burden with some mods. But that might be cheating :-)

I already read this story yesterday. The title here is wrong in two ways:

1. He used the women's restroom after trying the men's and finding there were no stalls, only urinals. The motivation was not the law, but necessity.
2. South Carolina doesn't even have one of those shitty laws (yet)

Can anyone read the artist credit?

"Polimalion Studios" gives me no hits.

Edit: I'm an idiot, OP is the artist: "Patimation Studios"

PCR testing for the SRY gene, according to the press release linked at the top.

Seems to me like they were already aware when writing this Press Release, they mentioned the policy on DSD:

Athletes that are deemed to be male at birth, as evidenced by the presence of Y chromosome genetic material (the SRY gene) or with a difference of sexual development (DSD) where male androgenization occurs, will be eligible to compete in the male category.

Athletes that are deemed to be female at birth, as evidenced by the presence of XX chromosomes or the absence of Y chromosome genetic material (the SRY gene) or with a DSD where male androgenization does not occur, will be eligible to compete in the female category.

We got SSO systems too, unfortunately, there are about 3 of them, lol. The old ADFS, the current Microsoft login (possibly cloud AD, not sure), and our own ID product that we offer to customers.