Posts by streaky

Re: what you never hear talked about...

I love hearing from people who haven't read any of the medical research it really makes my day. The threat to second hand vapers as it were is small enough that it's effectively zero. There's reams of research on this, this aint the 1930's, we have the technology to find out what's in the vapour.

Re: I found it stupidly easy to 'give up' with vapes.

Lady behind the tobacco counter at tescos

Yeah that stuff you can buy in a supermarket is no good for this. The juices all taste like ass and the ecigs themselves are no good for anything - and they're a rip off for refills. May I suggest finding a vape shop and asking for advice. Okay your start up costs are going to be higher getting yourself a proper mod and tank but you'll be happier with it in the long run. If anybody tries to sell you an unregulated mod walk out the shop and find another one though..

Re: "does this read more like an ad-icle"

You can ingest pure coffee in large amounts with no risk of death

You *can* kill yourself just by drinking coffee. It happens.

AFAIK there's no reported cases of anybody vaping themselves to death intentionally or otherwise. If you drank a teaspoon of the 72mg/ml nicotine I have it will kill you but if you drank caffeine that relatively strong that would kill you too. They're both poisons, deadly poisons. There's a long list of reasons they're comparable; not least because the research shows them to be about as dangerous as each other in vivo at normal usage doses, which is to say they're not at all.

Re: No Stalling here

They did analysis of why, including surveys and it's for reasons like the regulation making people think that smoking and vaping are equivalent in terms of risk when they very much are not. I linked the review of legislation, health and behaviour evidence above and it is well worth reading but here it is again.

Re: Public health strawman

Tobacco industry lobbying is how we got in the shit state we are in, stuck inside the EU with the TPD going out of its way to kill as many people as possible. OTOH this gem

Re: I found it stupidly easy to 'give up' with vapes.

My experience, they're nothing like cigs, barely meets the action habit, just about covers the chemical dependency.

Mind if I ask what gear you're using? It should easily cover the dependency and habitually is basically an irrelevance when that is the case. Plus the right juices and equipment you'll be happy doing it.

When I first started I wasn't interested in stopping smoking, tried a bunch of different equipment I wasn't happy with and continued smoking. Found some I was happy with and a juice I liked and I just stopped smoking. Even kept a packet of cigarettes on my desk which is a golden rule of don't do it when you want to quit smoking; switching to vaping like flicking a switch, and since gone down to 6mg/ml nicotine with no issues. My relationship with smoking is fine - I have no issue with people smoking near me because I have no craving for nicotine that I've known people who stopped decades ago longing for. I'm still not bothered about not smoking, I'd do it in a flash but I'm happy vaping and can't think of a single compelling reason to smoke over it; and I certainly don't *need* to smoke.

It shouldn't be a problem which is why I'm always interested to hear why it is for some people.

Re: Nicotine is an addictive neurotoxin however it is taken.

Yeah, in high doses. The stuff is nasty lethal, it's one of the strongest poisons there is. It isn't consumed at those levels though. Caffeine is also poisonous if you take enough of it.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15935584

Re: "does this read more like an ad-icle"

It's been proven that Nicotine is far less addictive when vaped, Proven. Also it's a "neurotoxin" in the same way as coffee is. And it's about as dangerous in normal consumption levels, which is to say it's not really. Should we also ban coffee? How about alcohol?

Also your argument is basically that people should just carry on smoking as opposed to finding some safer way to consume nicotine which is pure unadulterated nonsense.

Re: Tobacco is a carcinogen whether or not you burn it

Tobacco is a carcinogen whether or not you burn it

Vaping isn't tobacco. Has nothing to do with tobacco.

Re: Regulatory approval

TPD was written *for* the Tobacco industry, explicitly. They're the only ones who can. Products the tobacco industry are buying/producing are garbage though.

The EU is corrupt. But don't take my word for it. http://www.bath.ac.uk/research/news/2015/02/24/tobacco-lobbying-eu-directive/

Re: @ Ben ... A Flagrant Rotten Denial of Justice and a Blot in the UKGBNI Landscape

Just a nit... being a grammar Nazi... the word is regardless not irregardless. ;-)

Trouble with grammar Nazis is they're almost always wrong. Irregardless is a valid word in English, whilst being strange at a technical level it is completely legitimate to use.

Also there's no such thing as Standard English which is precisely why English is such a great language, it evolves; in contrast to for example French. Hell, English is born of evolution.

By this argument, people are allowed to choose where they spend their custodial sentences. I don't see that being allowed to become legal precedent.

Precisely. He isn't being held in an actual prison then he isn't being held is the legal standard; being on the lamb in South America doesn't count else Ronnie Biggs would have never served time when he landed back in the UK; it doesn't count as time served and arguing it does is completely absurd. Sooner Assange realises this the sooner he'll be out of prison and deported to Australia so he can be deported to the US. If you're gonna fuck with legal systems at least learn how to do it right, be in a non-extradition country before you do it.

Re: In the words of Sir Humphrey

Couple of fixes: the Germans will continue to pretend their courts are supreme to EU law they don't agree with (protip: they're not), the Irish can't afford to enforce it despite being the state where it matters most, the Italians are too busy drinking espresso to notice it and we (the British) are off. That said it's going into national law anyway - and we resent it because it's half-baked, like most things that come from the EU.

Re: 2 Countries.

because European politics and machinations are so transparent

I'm regularly downvoted on 'reg for speaking truth about the EU but this is one of the few areas of clarity. Regulations automatically apply and don't need transposing into national law, states *can* if they chose to but they don't have to, it just supersedes any law in conflict.

"the UK goverment want to hold data on EU citizens"

This is utterly untrue. That being said if you're a business doing business in the EU you'd arguably need to follow the regs for that data.

Re: Please mind the gap

that it provides some sort of gap in full take surveillance

Well it probably does to an extent but I doubt this is the real reason (certainly they're monitoring all mobile phones, all the time, c/o Gemalto). The civil service' primary role in government is witness protection for BT, anything that harms their market position must be stamped out, with prejudice. Hence the Ofcom link. natsec is just an excuse (as it tends to be).

Sure, though, if you operate a gsm gateway you can generate your own keys and decide your own cipher strength, all you need is the ability to write to sim cards which is a 10 quid on ebay type deal, and there's plenty of companies that will sell you blank writeable ones.

Re: Isn't it a small minority

Let the race to mediocrity commence.

There are people who run multiple AV products

This kind of thing is extremely bad practice, most people who work in security and AV vendors have been telling people to not do it for at least a decade, at least as far as active protection goes. Race conditions playing around in kernel memory space is bad juju.

Just don't do it.

Now having AV soft where one does your active protection and another that can scan but actively protecting the system is kinda viable, the answer in that case would be yeah, you better hope that the one you have doing the protection is the one that is compatible. If it isn't..

Re: Logic

You'd have to actively disable things to get into this state, namely defender. Sure defender is garb, it wasn't I don't think ever supposed to be that great but I'm sure defender will set the key (edit: Microsoft do explicitly list it on their spreadsheet). Defender will only disable itself, and will always disable itself if you're running other AV.

If you've specifically decided to go naked as it were, it's kinda your own fault and you should be paying attention to things like this. As for lawsuits, you're the one making the positive step not Microsoft, there's no liability here.

Re: Why would one want to use Nvidia?

It's not 2008, this driver thing isn't really worth talking about, AMD and nvidia have fairly solid linux drivers that perform perfectly fine. DKMS solved most issues and if you want open source nouveau is perfectly (more than, in fact) adequate these days.

Also AMD gave up on being competitive around the launch of the R5-9 which is why I abandoned the laborious wait for a RX Vega and bought a 1080ti hybrid instead.