Recent content by MartinS

It wouldn't have to be imprecise. Perhaps a tooltip-style popup with the current position of the pointer would help there. Not for simple recipes, but I'll often do mixes of Fuggles and Goldings in my English ales, and *that* gets to be a pain, especially if you start editing them: edit one...

I'm a long-time user of both ProMash and BeerSmith. While they both have their strengths, there's one thing that frustrates me in both of them: the interface for creating and editing recipes, especially the hop schedule. Tables are fine for grain-bills - they are after all just a list of...

You're right that many of us save on the transport cost, the cow-fart argument is a bit week. Someone else pointed out that spent-grain fed cows produce less methane than grass-fed ones. I have no idea if that's true or not, but it wouldn't matter if it weren't. We breed cows for milk and...

They're not copying the chip. This is not an "IT" hack - it's a mathematical one. They aren't just listening to the data being sent and recording it, they're processing the data in a way that reveals information that wasn't explicitly being sent. If by IT you mean that it involves computers...

In 3-4 years, they won't be able to use the strip in most countries, because the banks know the terminal should have forced a chip read, and will reject the charge. If someone were to try using the strip in a physical terminal outside Australia today, the charge will be rejected pending contact...

That's just nonsense. How do you think fraud is detected? Do you think it's done by bank employees looking through receipt stubs? Finding new methods of breaking these systems is a very large and important field of science. Improving the systems to make them stronger is a related but...

If you take a look at that, it doesn't actually help the crooks: Most card readers are fitted with both a magnetic reader and a chip reader. If someone wanted to clone the magnetic bit of your card, they'd just swipe the magnetic strip. That device is only interesting from a cryptographic...

But chipped cards still need contact with a reader. They're not the same thing as proximity cards. The reason they WILL take off is as follows: The more places that require that the chip be used when present (rather than just swiping the magnetic strip), the harder it is for card skimmers to...

Okay, so PP says, "Be careful with PVC hose, as it's only rated food-grade to 65c." (paraphrasing here). Domonsura says, "The hose is rated to 65c, beyond that I make no guarantees, and your mileage may vary." (again, paraphrasing). This is the longest thread I've ever seen where everyone...

Only way I've found is: don't use the internet. More seriously, your best bet is a bit of a PITA: change your email address. Get yourself a yahoo, hotmail or gmail account that you only give to people you know. Don't put it into web forms, and don't use it to send emails to companies you...

Yeah, I'd be in for few too.

Something I don't understand here is the difference between what the research says, and what you guys are doing. You guys are adding a couple of millilitres of oil, right? Doesn't the research say we should be adding single-digit milligrams for our quantities? I'm sure I'm missing something...

Reminds me of

Of all the nicknames that could have said that, yours gave an image I didn't need ;).

But here's the problem: While LC is extremely knowledgeable, if people go and do work based on his advice, it's only a matter of time before someone messes it up. All the advice he gave in this thread was spot on, but I can think of a dozen different ways that people could implement that advice...