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The biggest enemy of pigments is ultra-violet and lots of cheap flash kits do not filter that out.

Sunlight is about 1 KW/square meter on a non-cloudy day at noon, directly from above.

4% of that is a typical value for the UV component.

So the UV power hitting a 1 square meter surface at noon is about 40 Watts.

Photographic flash is on the order of a millisecond give or take, and power output of a typical flash during that millisecond is 100 Ws, or 100 KW/ms. Depending on how far away you are from the work of art you're putting for every 10 flashes then the equivalent of about of a second of exposure to the sun on the totality of the work (much more than 1 square meter, so you have to divide by the total surface). In the case of the chapel all the light discharged in the chapel will hit the object somewhere so apart from atmospheric effects (likely small) you can assume all of that light would contribute to the fading.

So every 10,000 tourists passing through and making one picture each with flash on is the equivalent of about 1000 second's worth of exposure to direct sunlight (think of a window of one square meter opening for 1000 seconds once per day), all this assuming that the flash contains an equivalent amount of UV as sunlight which likely is not the case. About 20,000 tourists per day pass through during the peak of the season, so on such days that's the equivalent of 2000 such seconds of the open window.

So at a guess, this is probably not too much of a problem, unless the pigments used break down very easily. (Blue is usually the most stable, with other pigments being more susceptible to fading)

What would be a problem is the fact that if all these people are discharging their flashes all the time that this seriously interferes with the ability of others who do not engage in such annoying reproductive behaviour to appreciate what they are looking at.

edit: fixed some of the math
This really hits home for me, because I'd love to use a CMS, but I just haven't found that is: (a) easy to use (b) easy to customize.

Just to single out a shortcomings I've recently found: multiple authors with multiple languages, defining short and long version of bio/tagline. The tagline is displayed at the article, which may be tagged with multiple contributors with different roles (author, translator, reviewer), while the author page displays the long version.

I've spent days to figure out what plugin/theme combination (Wordpress or Drupal) would enable me this single feature, and I couldn't figure it out.

Yesterday evening I gave up, and now I have <200 lines of code in Dart (using markdown and mustache), generating static pages that were annotated with metadata, doing just that. To be honest, I'd trade it any time for a decent CMS, I just can't find any.
> Doctors throw antibiotics at viral infections as a placebo cure

That's actually not what doctors say. When they can't determine if an infection is viral or bacterial, they treat it on the chance that it's bacterial (since we have a known treatment for bacterial infections and don't usually have a treatment for viral infections).

Tonsillitis is a good example: About 50% of tonsillitis cases are viral and 50% bacterial. "Relying on clinical presentation and history alone is unreliable in differentiating streptococcal from viral tonsillitis."[1] And bacterial tonsillitis can be quite serious.

So it seems reasonable to go ahead and treat with antibiotics even when there's a 50% chance that it's wasted, because the other 50% chance was that the treatment was highly beneficial.

[1] http://bestbets.org/bets/bet.php?id=2024
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Just don't neglect people's right to store some antibiotics in their preparedness kit without wasting a doctor's scarce time and engaging in medical fraud.
You have the right to use whatever antibiotics you can get your hands on. But you can hardly claim to have a "right" to an antibiotic for every conceivable case, considering that such an antibiotic may not exist yet, or may not even be possible.
This is the list I typically see given to newbies (on freenode ##OpenGL, and /r/opengl) wanting to learn modern OpenGL.

1. Arcsynthesis's gltut (http://www.arcsynthesis.org/gltut/) is good and reasonably thorough. He explains things well but not always in the order you'd like him to. At the end you will probably know enough to be able to figure out the rest on your own as you need.

2. http://open.gl/ is good but somewhat short. It also goes in depth into creating/initializing a context with various APIS (SDL, SFML, GLFW, ...). More of a good starting point than a complete guide.

3. http://ogldev.atspace.co.uk/ has a lot of good tutorials on how to do more advanced techniques, as well as many beginner level tutorials. I've never gone through them so I can't speak to their quality, but I've heard good things.

4. http://www.lighthouse3d.com/tutorials/glsl-core-tutorial/ is also good, but focused on the shading language.

See /r/opengl and freenode's ##OpenGL channel for more. Both those places are fairly newbie friendly (/r/opengl moreso than ##OpenGL, but as long as you actually know your language of choice they're nice), so feel free to ask questions.
The best way I've seen it implemented was a museum that not only had a lengthy explanation about how to turn off your flash (including examples for Sony point-and-shoots, which were fairly popular), but also had a "test table" with similar light as you'd find inside, so experts could adjust their exposure/ISO accordingly.

Perhaps that's expecting too much from the average tourist, but still, I found it cool.
> in Groovy, the safe navigation and elvis operators

The elvis op is called the null coalescing op in other languages. [1] Groovy's promoter chose the elvis name to fit in with marketing the Groovy and G-String names.

PHP also uses the ?: symbol but other languages use different ones, e.g. C# uses ?? and Perl uses //

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null_coalescing_operator
Support alternatives like Firefox OS where you're in control of your experience, where you're the user, not the data product being sold.
Like most (all) western countries do to tons of human rights advocates operating on their premises?
> it was not possible to know whether they were recording

That's false. If you spend 2 minutes learning about Glass in person, you can tell if it's recording or not. (If it hasn't been rooted and modified.)

Furthermore, if someone WANTED to record you without your knowledge, the LAST device they would chose to do it with would be Google Glass. It'd be like walking around with one of these:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/archive/0/0a/201402...

They draw attention to themselves, which would be the last thing you'd want to do, if you were trying to surreptitiously record someone.

You might as well be phobic about dying in a velociraptor attack.

People are so irrational.
...people that want to be people who can buy an $800 ice machine.

And that's a vastly bigger market than people who can buy an $800 ice machine.
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Amazon is a global company, it matters because not all of their customers are in the United States and they have no need to obey US laws with non-US customers.
Anyone else have the theme from Bladerunner playing in their head?
If luck gave you a ISP offering a good DNS service there is still a matter of privacy and escaping surveillance.

Laws ordering ISP to keep logs of their customer activity are becoming increasingly common around the world. By using a different DNS server your ISP DNS server has no logs to show for your DNS activity.

It is good privacy practice to split the data about your internet activities across different providers to make it more difficult to track you. For example if you use google services for web search, then you should not use google for your email (ideally your should host your own email).

But the sad state of reality is that ISP DNS are often poor, whether it is hijacking DNS for profit or blocking domains following judge's orders or local laws.
I have a doctor friend. He absolutely will NOT prescribe antibiotics for the sniffles. And I wish my copay was only $15.
There are services that will allow you to download .apk files from Google Play without an account. Like this one http://apps.evozi.com/apk-downloader/ Although I don't know how trustworthy they are.

If you want to avoid Google, you should install a build without Google services.

EDIT: OP's server went down so here's a copy of the rant:

I've just lost it with Google.

I install the latest Cyanogen Mod. What I've found is basically no android apps let you download the package to install yourself - you HAVE to use the App Store - and that means you HAVE to have a Google account.

So I make a fake account and download the apps I need. I'm not sure if I might want some more, so I've not logged out.

I went down to a museum today, took some photos.

What I've just found is they have all been fucking uploaded without my fucking permission to the fucking Google cloud. Including a set of private photos, one of which was sent to me on the understanding it was for no one else to see. Way to fucking go, Google. I CANNOT TRUST YOU.

So much for privacy. So much for ASKING PERMISSION. So much for MAKING IT CLEAR and so much for keeping my identity private - my IP and my phone are now associated with these photos, which contain my location info and probably shots of me in reflection. (I later found out - also my personal archived photos were uploaded - of my friends, me, personal photos for my eyes only).

Uploading to Google is irrevocable. You can delete all you want - Google will be keeping everything. Delete just means you no longer see it.

Oh, one other thing. If I'm logged into Google and I go to add someone to my address book, I can ONLY do so if I accept it being copied into the Google cloud - which is why my address book is currently still empty.

Fuck you Google, fuck you. Gone too far.

I hate this so much. I'm now wasting my fucking time trying to find out WHAT Google has done so I can try to undo it. I'm now searching on-line to try to find out how the fuck to delete a Google account.

Addendum. Yup. Logging into a Google account SILENTLY activates FULL UPLOAD OF EVERYTHING ON YOUR PHONE TO GOOGLE. Contacts, photos, emails, everything. EVERYTHING.

I think it's fair to say I cannot express in words how much I hate Google.

So, now, the only way I can see to at least superficially remove my photos from Google is to make copies to my PC, then delete them on my phone, with sync enabled, so they're removed from public visibility by Google.

All this trouble, frustrating, anger, annoyance, from Google, to me.

I am never going to log in to Google again.
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Weird, I learned from my lawyer that the typical reaction of apologists is to accuse someone of dictating when nothing was actually dictated.

I also consulted my penis, but it just hung there, being impressive. I'm not sure what I expected.
That just makes me picture an office full of trex-shaped assistants.
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I think this web server just lost it.
Nonetheless, platforms do assume some level of liability. Anyways, my argument here is not that Amazon is liable or at fault, but that the standards in the US have created a system where people are able to make assumptions about products they buy, and in this case, Amazon as a platform fails them to some extent. One could say it is our own fault for accepting the system we have, and I don't intend to put blame on Amazon, the seller, or the consumer, I only meant to point out that Amazon can and will make locale specific adjustments to their products and it doesn't seem completely insane that they do here. They can limit the sale of particular drugs with respect to the location of the purchaser without inhibiting the same to others where that product is legal.
Anyone have the technical info on how this was done and put together? Looking at other pages, it appears this was created by Villanova University in Pennsylvania (http://www1.villanova.edu/main.html) for the Vatican, and they appear to have several folks actively publishing in photogrammetry journals. It looks like it was done with some very high quality photogrammetry (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photogrammetry), and I'd be interested to see what program they used, and if its available, as my agency could probably find some uses for it.
Exactly. In my viewpoint, the dense correspondence is another key factor that makes this technique work.
I guess, I admit I didn't read the whole thing. It seemed like a typical startup worskup TechCrunch type so I have up half way in.
It's hard to say that the Sistine Chapel was inspired by religion - it was paid for by religion, yes.
incredible...
Ebay actually has automatic flagging to keep illegal products off their site.

I know this because I once tried to sell a pulse oximetry meter there and it got autoflagged and taken down. Apparently you can't sell (some?) medical supplies on ebay even though I bought the pulse ox meter from the store.
I'm just going to leave this here because it's outrageously funny

http://bit.csc.lsu.edu/~gb/csc4101/Reading/gigo-1997-04.html
Isn't the GPU just a computer that happens to support more parallelism than the CPU? Why not have a simpler API based on general-purpose operations like map/reduce/scatter/gather? Then there would be no need to add new "cutting edge" operations every year. I for one would be happy to use that instead of OpenGL or DX.
I too often encounter cheap Ethernet cable which only works at 10Mbps because maker saved money on wires.
OpenGL ES isn't really a departure from OpenGL, and most of the problems with OpenGL (all the ones mentioned here, I believe) apply to OpenGL ES.

OpenGL ES isn't trying to be a clean break. It's just a stripped down version of the given version suitable for embedded environments (e.g. OpenGL ES 2 is a stripped down version of OpenGL 2.0, ES3 => 3.0, ...).
Yes, the wow factor has definitely made me a bunch of new friends. The downside is that now they think I can do magic...
Tonido, owncloud both have traction. there are several others. Also some NAS solutions set up the DNS for you. QNAP, Synology, Netgear ReadyNAS to name a couple. You can also buy a machine and set up Amahi on it.
I wanted to address one thing:

> Venture-backed companies are generally forced to file patents -- often very silly and overbroad ones -- by their investors, who are alive to the possibility of flogging them off to a troll in the (likely) event that the company fails.

If you're dealing with an R&D focused company, as opposed to a product company, it is essential for investors to require the company to take out patents. Without a patent, an R&D focused company is an empty shell with no assets. All the technology is in a bunch of engineers' brains, all of whom can walk out the door at any moment. If the company isn't successful, without a patent investors are left with no assets of value, even if they produced technology that is itself valuable. Competitors can come along and hire away the engineers or just pick through the publications to glean the benefit of the R&D that the investors may have poured tens of millions of dollars into. And this is also where NPE's show their value: if investors can count on being able to sell the technology to an NPE who might then try and license it out, they are more likely to be willing to invest in the first place.

For a company like Makerbot, patents are going to be essential. Their brand isn't worth anything. They don't have an audience of users that might be disinclined to use a competitor for loss of the network effect. They've got technology, which by virtue of their generally open nature, is easy for a competitor to copy without the R&D effort they had to put into developing the technology in the first place. And as far as I can tell, they're not running a non-profit and have been the subject of tens of millions of dollars in investment.
Rant all you want, when you change phones and it all just syncs, it's fucking wonderful. If you don't like it, don't use a Google phone.
See sister comment.
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This has all the hallmarks of a Veblen Good. Cutting the price of the ices could well backfire if the key attraction is in signalling to all how much you're willing to spend for quality pre-melted water.
There is value to society in providing additional noncoercive ways to transfer money from rich people who don't need it to non-rich people who do, which is what this company is doing.
So the author seems angry to say the least. But he brings up a great point. What would the best alternative be in this situation? Apple? Firefox OS? Blackberry?
Yeah based on the word choice of 'my password' it seems likely she has a single password for everything.

The other possible way to interpenetrate her story is that the site asked for her email address and email password and she just freely gave those out. I don't want to believe this is the case but the phrasing doesn't prohibit it from being the case.

"And I received the login information -- this is all the first week of April -- and I logged in, and I put in -- as requested -- I put in my e-mail address and then put in my password."
DNS is designed to keep the root server load relatively low, and before there were "ISPs", yes, DNS was designed for every "network" to have at least one DNS server. Before that, you see, everyone just exchanged copies of a massive /etc/hosts file.

Anyway, I am totally all for a distributed p2p DNS, at least as a replacement for root servers.
You know what would be cool? If I can click on those painting and read story underlying each of them. I can read that all day long.
> Doctors throw antibiotics at viral infections as a placebo cure _all_ the time.

A fact pulled directly from your ass. Doctors never prescribe antibiotics for viral infections; antibiotics are for bacterial infections and no they don't just hand them out willy nilly.
> Logging into a Google account SILENTLY activates FULL UPLOAD OF EVERYTHING ON YOUR PHONE TO GOOGLE.

Is this true?

On SGS4mini I've seen option to back up data to Google servers, but I believe (not certain though - that was quite long time ago) that was opt-in, with some dialog asking me for agreement. Or maybe I'm mistaking anything, but at least I haven't seen any files that I didn't explicitly upload.

I've also seen option to enable automatic photo backup to Google+, which was certainly opt-in, as a feature suggestion. It was quite persistent, suggesting that I enable it, though.
Also using the ',' operator works.
Didn't the .io domain get repurposed for general use, which is why so many projects and companies have started using it lately?
You are right they don't necessarily compare well to Minecraft as systemic games. But they have procedurally generated worlds, and rival the best AAA games in terms of amount of gameplay they offer, and at a fraction of the price. I have over 200 hours into Spelunky, and it still frequently manages to surprise me.
Power dissipates with r squared and interference is always an issue. So if I set one of these on top of a refrigerator in the middle of the lab, I could probably hit most of the resident offices and some of the staff. But most of the residents couldn't get to each other with just their iphones.
Most likely those interpretations of Michelangelo's frescoes as brain stem, etc are a case of pareidolia. In the case of the "brain cross-section" (where God touches Adam) There is no reason why Michelangelo should choose what is now a standard representation of the brain in a sagittal cross-section over any other cross-section; in fact the image doesn't look very much like a real brain in cross-section, but is closer to the stylized one that appears in modern text-books (which Michelangelo would obviously not have been aware of).
after day of hard public service our public servants need their artisan ice. $400 space toilet seat starts to look like a bargain.
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I think this is just old net.art
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Guessing. Perhaps because both those medications list Stevens–Johnson Syndrome and other deadly skin reactions as a rare side effect?
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I have been looking forward to trying this out ever since I heard about pollen in one of MB's talks on typography. Unfortunately it requires racket 6.0 and Debian only has 5.3.6 in unstable and nothing in experimental.

According to the "package 6.0" bugreport it looks like things are not going to change very soon:

As far as I understand, the build system and general organization of
racket has been changed quite a lot for 6.0. I'm not sure how soon I'll
find time and motivation to work on this, especially since I'm committed
to using 5.3.6 at $WORK through the end of April.

I cant remember the last time I saw a self extracting shell archive installation and/or a shar without a gpg signature.
It's not true. I'm pretty sure OP just overlooked the dialogue that pops up and asks you if you want to backup pictures when you add a new account.
Thanks for the paste.

Strikes me that this is like a diabetic going into a cupcake store for lunch. If you're very concerned about permissions, visibility, accounts, anonymity... why on earth would you want to use a Google product? The entire ecosystem is very publicly about interconnectivity, cloud storage, apps talking to each other, invisible backups, and persistent identity. These are the marquee features of Google's apps and services!
Kind of funny. It is impossible to make perfect vacuum (a few particles per cubic inch) down on earth. One has to lunch stuff into space.
Its confusing. Was going to post the same question. If it is Plugin then there are already thousands existing in market what is need of it?
Static typing, message passing concurrency, dynamic dispatch, modules, object orientation, generics. These things are so ancient, why would anyone want to use a language like that anymore? About the only thing it doesn't get a check mark for is functional programming. And most of those features I listed were actually well considered and deliberated on before being added into Ada so it's not just a kluge like tacking more features onto C.
If your acne is bad you can go to a doctor to get a prescription.
>> Remember that looking for work is a full-time job.

+1

Being employed is side effect of that.
>They don't have to understand your values in order to judge you. All they need to understand are the facts and the law.

That could be said for racist laws just as well (e.g Jim Crow stuff).

Even if they don't have to "understand his values", they should be made to, and the law is bad in this regard.

Hence, I don't see the point in pointing out the status quo and what privileges they have in a neutral manner. Seems like apologist to me.
I know that Paul Debevec worked in the Sistine Chapel. Is this his work?
There is always Apple. At least they're not an advertising company.
Your ISP can already easily track what you browse/requests, it's not like the DNS logs give them more information (and unless you use DNSCrypt or similar, they can just see the DNS traffic anyway).

On the contrary, by using a different DNS server you're giving your data both to your ISP (you have to) and a 3rd party.