Re: Get on with your job.
Odds are a place like the magic doughnut has quite a lot of people who happily make up stuff like that in their own time.
And at least one of them has a twisted sense of humor. French numbers? That's just mean.
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Ducks, Lord of the Rings, movies and maths: The GCHQ Xmas puzzle solutions revealed
Reminder: iPhones commit suicide if you repair them on the cheap
Head transplant candidate sells souvenirs to fund operation
Saturday 6th February 2016 00:44 GMT
If they freeze the brain it will be mush when they thaw it. It's too delicate. [Yes, okay, if you must, insert zombie joke here] The water in the tissue will not only expand while freezing, a lot of it will turn into needle-like ice crystals that will puncture cell membranes etc. Too much damage to remain a working brain. You'd have to spike the blood with antifreeze or replace it for the time being. But that would cause too much damage just as well. There are single-cell organisms that can survive being frozen, but that's it.
Maybe inducing a coma and lowering the temperature near (but above, with a safety margin) zero could work, but probably only for a short time. This still would be a lot of punishment, and the human brain isn't really designed for that. Our brains are the most complex thing we know. They are used to, so to speak, being housed, immersed in liquid, in a protective sphere. Ever had a concussion? Brains don't like that. Sunstroke? Temperature control is an issue. Nasty stuff in the blood? Not good, so there are clever filter mechanisms to form a barrier (alcohol and drugs can get through to some extent, but that's neither here nor there).
I don't know what I'd do to try to survive, but I can't help the feeling that a body swap would only speed things up.
Next question: where do you get a suitable body? Does being an organ donor even cover that?
Bonus question: given that the body swap, against all odds, actually works - what will be the surviver's legal status and identity?
EMC creates a Star Trek holodeck ... and uses it to simulate a data center
Disney World-area University admits massive data breach
Who would code a self-destruct feature into their own web browser? Oh, hello, Apple
German Chancellor fires hydrogen plasma with the push of a button
What's it like to work for a genius and Olympic archer who's mates with Richard Branson?
Friday 5th February 2016 17:27 GMT
Re: “Surgical titanium is quite distinctive,” Alien8 wrote.
As I'm on the continent, I wouldn't know about NHS terms and conditions.
However, I've got a little souvenir like that from the time I broke my ankle in a motorcycle mishap in 2001. Had it in me for a year, and the hospital gave it to me after removal. They told me it was titanium. Well, it's definitely not steel or aluminium. Very, very light, yet very, very sturdy. ln the x-rays it looked like something from a DIY shop, screwed to the bones with Philips screws, though.
I keep it on the keyring with my motorcycle keys as a 'don't do stupid things' reminder.
Dragons and butterflies: The chaos of other people's clouds
Friday 5th February 2016 21:40 GMT
Re: This is one side of the coin
Good point(s). I'd like to add one: in addition to the people out there who want to bring the system down, there will be all sorts of additional problems once all that IoT crap scales up. It's not just that your backup to the cloud will have to share bandwith with the toaster oven in the cafeteria. At least some of the IoT devices will have their connectivity software and protocols implemented so poorly that they will bork up things big time.
Cisco's purple princesses gush workplace joy
Go and whistle, IDC. The storage world's going to hell in a handbasket
While we weren't looking, the WAN changed
The Mad Men's monster is losing the botnet fight: Fewer humans are seeing web ads
Bats and badgers hold up Apple’s Irish data centre plans
RSA awards 7-year infrastructure overhaul deal to Wipro
Sir Michael Lyons tells .uk registry Nominet: Time to grow up
Microsoft explanation for Visual Studio online outage leaves open questions
IoT lacking that je ne sais quoi? Try the IoTSP
UC Berkeley profs blast secret IT monitoring kit on campus
Who wants a quad-core 4.2GHz, 64GB, 5TB SSD RAID 10 … laptop?
Boffins smear circuitry onto contact lenses
Swiss rolls into HPE: Micro-Veeam clone Trilead gobbled
Fired Norse Corp CEO blames the media
Mall owner lays blame at Apple's door for dragging down sales
OpenSSL fixes bug, gets dissed by German gov: That's so random ... not
Pebble punts out new firmware to watch you as you sleep
Winning Underhand C Contest code silently tricks nuke inspectors
Thursday 4th February 2016 15:10 GMT
Re: The scenario is irrelevant.
Yes and no. As it's a purely intellectual exercise, sure, what the hell. But if someone presents a "real life example" to me, it should qualify as one. Otherwise I'm just annoyed, and thus distracted from the actual topic of the exercise.
In this case: a conventional warhead isn't supposed to contain fissionable material at all, so if the Geiger counter sings, shred it. (The warhead, not the Geiger counter.)
Having got that off my chest: Very clever coding indeed.
Microsoft's malware mitigator refreshed, but even Redmond says it's no longer needed
Autodesk vapourises ten per cent of jobs to go completely cloudy
Thursday 4th February 2016 12:32 GMT
Re: "subscription revenue [...] far outstripped product revenue"
Richard, I'm with you as far as renting a special tool for a special job from time to time, for the duration of the special job. I do that from time to time - among other things I work in structural engineering. I have my everyday toolbox for that. Bought and paid for or DIY. Every once in a while something fairly exotic comes along and if I need to, I rent specialised software on a hourly or daily rate.
But I'll be damned if I'll pay a monthly (or yearly) subscription for something I don't need really, really often.
Google to deep six dodgy download buttons
Get ready to tear into next round of hacker tool rules in Wassenaar Arrangement refresh
Cisco borgs IoT outfit Jasper Tech for US$1.4 billion
Row over GCHQ-built voice algo MIKEY SAKKE rumbles on
Google Search head: I'm off. Yes, I told you yesterday. On Google+
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