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  1. MartinS

    Brewing Software Guis

    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...
  2. MartinS

    Brewing Software Guis

    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...
  3. MartinS

    Is Hb Good For The Environment?

    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...
  4. MartinS

    Atm Skimmers

    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...
  5. MartinS

    Atm Skimmers

    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...
  6. MartinS

    Atm Skimmers

    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...
  7. MartinS

    Atm Skimmers

    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...
  8. MartinS

    Atm Skimmers

    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...
  9. MartinS

    High Temperature Hose Selection - Be Careful!

    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...
  10. MartinS

    Spam Emails

    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...
  11. MartinS

    Sodium Percarbonate

    Yeah, I'd be in for few too.
  12. MartinS

    Olive Oil In Starter

    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...
  13. MartinS

    Gruen Transfer Tonight

    Reminds me of
  14. MartinS

    Whats Your Current Non-beer Task/job/hobby Around The House...

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

    Mashmate/2400w Element Blowing Inline 10a Fuse

    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...
  16. MartinS

    Mashmate/2400w Element Blowing Inline 10a Fuse

    And you had him check that your circuit can handle 15A (with an appropriate breaker) and installed a 15A outlet for you, right? You've also upgraded all the wiring in your temperature controller box to handle the higher current, and installed the correct plug with the thicker ground pin on the...
  17. MartinS

    Replacing Vista With Xp

    What is it that's driving you crazy? Is it the look and feel, or do you need to go deeper into the OS? If it's just the look and feel, then it's pretty easy to make it look a lot more like XP or even earlier versions. I always hated the XP look-and-feel, so all my machines look like good old...
  18. MartinS

    Mashmate/2400w Element Blowing Inline 10a Fuse

    I'd love to see these "How do I screw around with 240V" style threads banned. 99% of people responding have no idea what they're talking about, and worse: don't know it. The people asking the questions are never going to listen to the other 1% (professionals in related fields, but unlicensed)...
  19. MartinS

    Mashmate/2400w Element Blowing Inline 10a Fuse

    Why is this such a common misconception? I thought if people knew only one thing about electricity, it was Ohm's law, yet this pearler keeps coming up. Ohm's Law: I = V / R. The resistance is constant in an electric element, so if you decrease the voltage, you decrease the current.
  20. MartinS

    Brewing With Synthetic Biology

    As featured on Slashdot (summary and discussion), some researchers at Boston University have been toying using mathematical models to predict behaviour of genetically engineered cells. They used yeast to demonstrate their technique, engineering yeast to flocculate in different ways...
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