People leave molecular wakes that may give away their secrets
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$50 spectrometers are already quite small, https://hackaday.io/project/143014-compact-25-spectrometer & https://www.tindie.com/products/onehorse/compact-as7265x-spe...
If portable analyzers inspired by Star Trek's tricorder become affordable, the transparency goes in multiple directions, e.g. analyzing food, liquids and other substances sold commercially.
In fact, several of these they can already do with a combination of the existing hardware, but sadly, the market has laser-focused on visual social media.
Sad, because I'd buy one if it was just a normal phone plus IR. Presently I make do with a plug-in accessory module.
I share your frustration. Consider a sled-backpack-case sort of thing with "all the missing sensors", instead of piecemeal accessories you carry a gaggle of and have to swap out. If it was like one of those extended-battery sled cases, you could just leave it on and write apps that expect it to be there...
I do think it's simultaneously cool and ridiculous that instead of just adding a simple distance sensor, companies making measurement software for phones double down on the software-only approach with computer vision.
I think they licenced it to Stanley or similar.
The problem I see is that lawmakers and law enforcement want these to be taken as the gospel truth when obtained and provided as evidence in a court of law, while the judges or juries are usually not competent enough to understand the nuances and question the “evidence” to the extent necessary to not sentence an innocent person.
The odour conserve features at the end.
They all sit on a large surface, and represent different types of fluids. One might represent the insides of your cells, another represents your blood. Another might represent the stomach, or another part of the digestive system, etc.
You have an input pot that represents what you eat, and that's the only one you can actually put ingredients in, and each pot cooks things in a different way. Your body is like a chef trying to keep the "cell soup" pot tasty, but it can only swap ladles of stuff between ajacent pots, mostly at random.
On the one hand it seems like a big mess, but on the other it feels like it has some sort of usefulness.
There really is a huge amount of chaos happening, and molecules are just kind of bouncing around and migrating randomly between regions. Using this soup-random model, it's easy to understand the wake we leave behind, as what is being spilled as things move around.
There's more to it than that. So basically you get a MS profile for each GC peak. But there are various ways to do MS. Some mainly give you masses of intact molecules, after ~gentle ionization. But some also give you masses of fragments, and that distinguishes among molecules with similar masses.
1) I ALWAYS try to post an unblocked version of stories from the Wall Street Journal and the Economist that I submit: if I can't do so, I don't post the article.
2) I used to rely on Outline as my #1 go-to for unblocking, but something changed there about 6 months to a year ago such that it stopped working completely so I stopped even considering it along my "trail of unblocked tears."
3) When I see a comment about blocked New York Times or Washington Post articles posted by me or others, I immediately post an unblocked version.
4) Having said all that, here are my go-tos for unblocking paywalled articles, best first:
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Every time I unblock something a little "good deed of the day" bell rings in head; paying it forward, as it were.
We thought it was the bag she smelled... until she left the bag outside in the car. Our dog smelled her, asked to be let out into the garage, asked to be let out into the driveway, then asked to be let into the car, and then nosed her bag.
We were amused.
As I am wont to say, privacy in meatspace is dead. Or at least, getting deader every day.
Edit: And so this is another advantage of working remotely. In particular, as a consultant.
Like a lot of tech, it favors those already in a powerful position. If you make it cheaper and easier for a nosy boss to be nosy, they will be nosier. Cops will have a field day figuring out exactly how far courts will let them push things. And so on.
The potential for surreptitious sampling also opens up new angles for general snooping and blackmail.
Not saying it's any thing equal, but imagine being able to 'get dirt' on those in power easily.
Now, it's a lot less.
That is to say, n/∞ << n/x.