- Borepatch on encryption. I type my emails in lemon juice now; you have to hold your monitor over a candle to read them.
- These leaks are bad leaks because they didn't come from inside the administration.
- Apple coughs up numbers of the times the .gov has asked it to cough up data.
- Chinese media in an uproar over Snowden's claims that the US .gov hacked Chinese computers: There is apparently no word for "irony" in Mandarin.
- Why you shouldn't lap up those sweet, sweet puddles of antifreeze.
Re: Antifreeze.
ReplyDeleteA man working under a car bleeding brakes is squirted in the mouth with brake fluid, and finds he likes the taste. Soon enough he is drinking several cans of Dot3 a day. When his friends stage an intervention he shouts...
Wait for it...
"I CAN STOP ANYTIME!"
Anyone thinking that the US of A - the country in which 95% of present day computing was developed would not be hacking every potential competitor has to be exhibiting lead-like levels of denseness...
ReplyDeleteYeah, but Garneau, the point was "teh irony, it burnz", not "you're an idiot to think we're not hacking your computers when we know you're hacking ours."
ReplyDeleteRe: Deborah Blum's book.I knew anti freeze was poisonous,but the article was interesting just the same.However,now that you made me click on the link,the Feds know I know,and they'll be watching me whenever I buy antifreeze and now I can't ever kill anyone that way.
ReplyDelete(How's that for paranoid conspiracy?)
Billf
heh,my wv is 'lawful'
I switched to Sierra antifreeze some years back for the dogs' sake -- it is supposed to be less harmful to them.
ReplyDeleteMost ethylene glycol antifreezes are being phased out for those with propoylene glycol. Propylene glycol is non-toxic and is even approved by the FDA for consumption in food. The switch has been pressured by ASPCA and EPA to move to a non-toxic antifreeze.
ReplyDeleteThose who love their little vaporizing e-cigarettes consume propylene glycol frequently, as that is the main ingredient contained in the vaporized liquid.
Random antifreeze facts for the day.
Check the ingredients in your Dr. Pepper.
ReplyDeleteDidn't some doctor back in the late '50's or early '60's medicate his wife, then shoot the stuff into her scalp with a syringe?
ReplyDeleteYup. You actually have to look for ethylene glycol antifreeze these days, because most of it has been switched over to propylene glycol.
ReplyDelete(Was draining coolant from this computer for yearly flush/fill when our dogs came snooping around. Still kept them away from bowl, but glad it was propylene glycol...)
More re antifreeze: ethanol is (or can be) part of the treatment for ethylene glycol poisioning. (It's not so much the EG as its metabolic byproducts when the body breaks it down that cause problems. Good old EtOH is a competitor for the enzymes that break down EG, thus slowing down the rate of conversion and buying time to do something like dialyze the EG out.) So I could see this:
ReplyDeleteWife: Drinking whiskey at 10 AM?
Husband: Honey, I was working on the car like you wanted me to, and I got squirted in the mouth with antifreeze. It's poisonous. Doc says this is the antidote.
The part in the Wired article about "sharp-edged [calcium oxalate] crystals ... neatly slicing cells apart" is utter bullshit. Sure, CaOx crystals accumulate in renal tubules and damage ensues in part from obstruction and probably from some direct toxicity (and perhaps mitochondrial dysfunction), but the little knives part is crap. Sheesh.
Yeah, that's how my dog died. Somebody was too lazy to clean up their antifreeze (or worse, left some out intentionally).
ReplyDeleteIf you like oxalates with your iron, eat your spinach:
ReplyDeletehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinach
And if you really want to clean out yourself, polyethylene glycol (aka MiraLax) is a way to go:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyethylene_glycol
Hold your monitor over a candle... snerk... :-D
ReplyDeleteNote:If you discover that your dog has ingested antifreeze (or any other toxin you want it to vomit up)force/pour some Hydrogen Peroxide down their throat.It should make them puke immediately,and won't get them sick.Just a handy thing to know.
ReplyDeleteBillf
Lemon juice...brilliant! All the open flames at NSA will set off the sprinkler system. Comedy ensues.
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