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Your backpack will blow up even if it only had clothes and a vibrating dildo in it.

Now... what happens if you're one of those enthusiast preppers and accidentally left behind a backpack full of accessories and water containers heavily shielded with blastproof heat-resistant armor, and latched up tight with blastproof padlocks? :)

Pressure cookers have also been used to cook delicious meals economically and quickly. That's actually why they're called pressure cookers.

So have cars.

there are 4 options that escalate nicely for the first 3 steps, CD, DVD, BDR, Tape

These are not good options for home users because they all involve ongoing work. Just install a 4GB network drive (available on Amazon for less than $200), and set up your home computers to do hourly incremental backups. For extra safety, buy two, keep one at your office, and swap them once a month.

Eliezer Yudkowsky's "Rationality: From AI to Zombies" is a must-read on this subject. He lays out very clearly and compellingly just why self-improving AIs are so dangerous, and what extremely narrow path the humanity needs to walk to avoid this danger.

I still struggle with putting in the correct amount of water when I prepare Kool-Aid

If you're having trouble, Amazon has the solution to your Kool-Aid woes.

In other news, crochet, knitting, child care, and midwifery are STILL seen as "Female" professions.

Except when they aren't.

It would take less time to search Amazon for 2600 magazine than it would to ask someone on the internet if you can buy it on Amazon.

*Sigh*
Pot, kettle... ;)

I never did read 2600, but here's real info to break up the potential for recursive stove-fest The answer to whether Amazon sells it is "yes" with a "but"

TL;DR: All I see are kindle editions (makes sense, but why they don't they also carry the print edition another poster already confirmed has survived our turbulent digital-prone times?). Anything paperback there is just some "best of" compilation.

I want something as close to a smart phone as possible that The phone company will not force me to get a data plan for

You can get that.

ATT, Verizon, and others have a policy that you cannot use certain phones on their network without a data plan. They will automatically upgrade you to a data plan, even if you would rather use your phone with WiFi.

That's possible with AT&T at least. Head to your local big box store, pick up one of AT&T's Android Go phones. While the phone's quick start card says to "enable" the phone via the phone, if you do it that way it automatically signs the phone up for a smartphone plan...you don't want that.

  What you do is enable the phone online at the go phone website. Doing it that way lets you choose a non-smartphone plan even with your smartphone.

Frankly, I would like an Android device with no non-Wifi data functionality, that the phone companies would classify as a dumb phone.

I use one of these:
http://www.amazon.com/AT-Z998-...

In EXACTLY the way you describe with THIS plan:

http://www.att.com/shop/wirele...

Basically I buy a $25 card every 3 months.

I've been getting a bunch of BLU phones for the kids for about $20 - $30 a pop.
http://www.amazon.com/BLU-Unlo...

They're by no means nice phones, but they have a good feature set, and we haven't had any problems with them that weren't caused by dropping them into puddles or sending them on a ride through the laundry machine.

BLU also has a slightly larger one with a full Blackberry-like keyboard for texting that also has a broadcast TV receiver instead of just FM radio.

I just bought the Exelvan MTK6260A phone watch (2G) and it's great! Battery lasts 4-5 days, 1-2 days when using bluetooth a lot.
http://www.amazon.com/Excelvan...

I’ll just leave this here

http://www.amazon.com/gp/jobs/...

Or

http://www.amazon.com/gp/jobs/...

I’ll just leave this here

http://www.amazon.com/gp/jobs/...

Or

http://www.amazon.com/gp/jobs/...

A couple of Ubiquiti wireless adapters [$73] would probably do the trick. Put openwrt on them, configure a crazy routing system like from the GGGGP. Then you could configure them to connect to a hotspot (broadcast from you laptop) and just do the whole thing wirelessly.

A set of strong ethernet cables would still be my first option though.

It sounds like AWS's Spot Instances? Except for the fixed pricing.

Yup, it's their version. Forbes compares them. The fixed price is nice on the Google side, but there's no 2-minute warning before termination on Google like you get on AWS, and AWS launched a new Spot Fleet product the same day Google announced.

Either way, you need to be doing the kind of work where you can lose VMs on short notice and keep going, but it's a very nice discount if you can.

1) Very few websites supported it

It's getting better, but this is still a problem. One option is to just set it up for LastPass and maybe Google. I agree that securing your online banking access would be a good idea, but very few bank websites support this.

3) Too expensive - $18 - $50 each.

If you just need a key for a desktop or laptop (no NFC), you can get a FIDO U2F key for $6. The downside is that LastPass doesn't support these yet (although they're working on it). Google already supports them.

does it also state whether they allow a backup key?

Yes, both LastPass and Google allow you to associate multiple Yubikeys with your account. So it's no problem to add your spouse's key to your account and vice versa, or to keep a backup key in the desk drawer and have that associated with multiple accounts.

How would you use it with an ipad or iphone?

Unfortunately, the iPhone 6 still isn't supported for use with the Neo, although they might add it in the future. I don't know about the iPad, but my guess is no. Any Android phone with NFC should support it already.

I recollect Penzias making that statement that the math simply does not work in his book: Digital Harmony: Business, Technology & Life After Paperwork

http://www.amazon.com/Ideas-In...

I noticed there are a lot of incidents of "people providing carriage" these days looking for any possible revenue streams they can get, legitimate or not. Mafia-Like. The big near-Monopoly residential broadband providers in the world want to change their role from common carrier to Mafioso Middlemen.

Without Title II / Network neutrality regulation by the FCC.... the time has fast been approaching in the US, where if you want to go to http://www.amazon.com/ in your web browser, you would not be able to, unless Amazon made a deal with your ISP that includes a cut of every sale.

It's similar to the idea of the electric company wanting to charge a percentage of the sales of every new device, before you are allowed to plug it into the wall (Your new iPhone charger must be hardwired by a POCO-approved installer, and the install fee is $50 plus 10% of the price of the new equipment shown on the sales reciept).

There are many mechanical keyboards. I use a Filco which I am very pleased with.

There are entire sites dedicated to everyday carry (EDC) with some sites focused on flashlights, knives, Atwood tools, etc. You can spend a lot of time and money on EDC "research" :-)

Front pocket (in approx. order of use)

• Cell phone with $20 behind cover
• ---
• Burt's Bees lip balm with a keyring cap
• Victorinox Swiss Army Manager Pocket Knife w/ toothpick on a McGizmo Nano clip (20mm #1)
• Olight i3S EOS LED flaslight with lithium AAA battery
• some inch-wide Gorilla Tape and elecrical tape wrapped around a black Sharpie Mini
• 64 GB USB 3.0 flash drive (Kanguru for write-protect switch; FlashBlu30 but considering SS3) on split ring and metal #0 Nite Ize S-biner
• silicon ear plugs and half a Q-tip in a key fob (approx. same diamater as lip balm, slightly shorter)
• $20 bill wrapped around BIC Mini lighter on a Keeep-It holder
• all connected with other split rings and clips on an older Munroe Mega Dangler
• -

Other front pocket (in approx order of use)

• white LED Photon freedom with car keys on the snap ring
• True Utility TU245 key shackle with 3 keys, #2 Phillips key, grocery card, and Uncle Bill's Sliver Gripper Tweezer
• house key cut on green KeyLights on clip that came with True Utility key shackle
• $20 wrapped around a 0.5 oz (15 mL) Purell hand sanitizer in jelly wrap holder
• all connected with a split ring
• ---
• leather billfold with slots for six cards; cash $1s/5s/10s/20s, bandaids, a hair pin, and Plop Boot Manager on a credit-card sized CD-R
• -

Shirt pocket--you *always* have a shirt pocket, right?

• Zebra Clip-On four-color pen + 0.5 mm pencil
• Monteverde Stylus Tool Pen with ruler, level, and screwdriver
• a handkercheif wrapped around a small (2.5" x 4") Moleskine book

He literally wrote the book that kicked-off a lot of this anti-vaccine stuff, which is why the vaccination levels are so low in so many left-wing democrat communities rather than supposedly anti-science republican areas. In fact, the Democrats in Sacramento put a clause into this that grand-fathers-in the kids of the current anti-vaccine activists, just to get them off their backs in their heavily liberal districts (the idea being that in a few years they'll not have any more young kids and will not care that the next generation of young kids won't get the exception)

Swiss Army Cybertool Lite:

http://www.amazon.com/Victorin...

Cheapest Keurig coffee maker on Amazon: $82

Cheapest microwave at Walmart: $49. Or if you really need the money, buy a (probably much nicer) microwave from a thrift store for $10.

The microwave doesn't have any stupidly-expensive consumables and can be used for reheating healthy, homemade food just as easily as processed junk food. The space argument is bunk too, since you put stuff on top of it with a net loss of little counter space.

Unless they come up with a hot soft pretzel dispenser, they likely won't get me for a customer.

What? You haven't heard?

http://www.amazon.com/Nostalgi...

I had this problem until I purchased a CHOE Stadium Qi Wireless Charger

http://www.amazon.com/gp/produ...

The one I had before was 3 coils two with a nice kickstand. I liked the idea of that since it would be easier to use the phone while charging but it would just start then stop charging. The beeps really got on my nerves and my phone would be dead by morning

Randall Munroe worked out this question based on my question in his book. My question had to do with what the last artificial light source working would be. The answer isn't what I expected.

I have no problem with turning my kid into a lab rat

It's a good article, but the pattern is an old one. Twenty (20) years ago, I wrote much the same thing about object-oriented technology. Since then, I've found that the same issues, the same pitfalls, pretty much apply to any new technology or methodology; here are some more generalized pitfalls (based on ones from the 1995 book) that I wrote up nearly a decade ago (2008):

-- Adopting a new technology or methodology for the wrong reason
-- Thinking a new technology or methodology comes for free
-- Thinking a new technology or methodology will solve all your problems
-- Betting the company on a given technology or methodology
-- Getting religious about the technology or methodology
-- Adopting a technology or methodology without well-defined objectives
-- Overselling the technology or methodology

These all apply to Agile -- but they also apply to just about every other 'silver bullet' technology or methodology that's come along. ..bruce..

I encountered this with the Cairo Graphics library. They do have very basic tutorials, but nothing that covers the advanced functions. Any graphics library/API should show the desired output alongside the code since a picture is worth a thousand words. :P The best example of this I have encountered is Postscript: A Visual Approach. The book's examples showed the source code on the left page and the actual output of the code on the right page. The book also did a good job of explaining how coordinate transforms work, something that is important when dealing with vector graphics.

[Netflix] runs on Linux, OS X, Windows, and Chrome OS

Is this Linux, or just X11/Linux/x86? I guess DRM stops people who want to use Netflix from building a media center out of a Raspberry Pi.

Does the Android version work on devices without Google Play Services? Its presence on Amazon Appstore implies yes, but one thing on that page worries me: "Netflix playback is supported on Android 2.2, 2.3, 3.x and 4.x devices." Is Android 5.x "Lollipop" incompatible with Netflix, or is that notice just out of date?

God is Republican because the Republicans are the party of Big Business, and Big Business decided in the Depression Era that it needed to be Christian. They were getting called out for not acting like Christians, and so they redefined what Christianity meant. There's a book about it.

It's not as high as that. Here is one with all the pieces (including 16GB and M.2 SSD) all assembled and tested for $755. Same thing with the 5i5 is $630; 5i3 is even cheaper.

A Mac Mini with an i7, 16 GB and the cheapest available SSD is $1400. I just went to the Apple store to check. And the Mac Mini is 19.7x19.7 cm. The NUC is 11.5x11.1 cm. A whole different class. Even the original Mac Mini before it got pointlessly squashed down vertically and bloated horizontally was 15x15 - 17x17 cm. If I could find my old shell I would tell you, but it was definitely in that range. The present Mac Mini doesn't even use an external power brick you can toss on the floor under the desk. The main case is bloated to hold the whole power supply.

Maybe you could tell us just what is out there that IS competetive with the NUC?

From 2010 to early on the year I was responsible for Big Data technical marketing at Microsoft, recently joined AWS. I won't comment of any of the specifics for my current or former employer, but it's a fact that other nosql technologies have a higher adoption rate. It's clear that the traditional datawarehouse had limitations, and that hadoop is not replacing the EDW. The largest companies are using proprietary technologies, not adopting hadoop. Hadoop 2.0 is much better, you should use it if you have the skills. But if you don't, relational, nosql and cloud databases are evolving to solve most use cases. I would invest more resources on Advanced Analytics both on open source (e.g. http://xpatterns.com/connect/ or https://aws.amazon.com/marketp... ) or proprietary (SAS, IBM, SAP...).

See the 1957 book, On the Beach by Nevil Shute, nuclear fallout apocalypse.
at Amazon.
Spoiler alert:
Nuclear submarine commander looking for remaining people on the surface tracks down the last electrical signal. Turns out to be static from the neon light in a shop window.

AWS has posted an advisory stating that they are not affected by VENOM.

Your post has nothing to do with the thread and post you responded to. It is a non sequitor, an injection of a political attack against conservatives into the discussion. To correct you, "Bob" isn't making a point, he's making an argument, and a specious one at that. His writings in essense are a polemic which is riddled with errors or distortions from what I've seen. Oh, and what a surprise, it was written during the height of BDS - Bush Derangement Syndrom, of which he seems to be a carrier.

So if we are recommending literature that might provide some illumination on the qestion of authoritarians, there is a book that is far more useful and factual than Bob's book. You can find a review here and the book here.

Ohh FFS -- Astronaut Water? That would sell about as good as Astronaut Ice Cream -- remember that crap? Who buys that anymore? Whens the last time you saw anything "astronaut" related being "cool" or trendy?

Amazon sells it, and it has 4.7 of 5 stars with 149 reviews

Ohh FFS -- Astronaut Water? That would sell about as good as Astronaut Ice Cream -- remember that crap? Who buys that anymore? Whens the last time you saw anything "astronaut" related being "cool" or trendy?

Amazon sells it, and it has 4.7 of 5 stars with 149 reviews

In his book, The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology Ray Kurzweil talks about the difficulties moving information from media to media as technology changes. He comes to the conclusion that information is only readily available when someone cares about it.

If you have enough money, [like other posters mentioned] you could setup a trust and have the executors required/compensated for taking an actions (such as keeping your online presence going after you die.)

Professor J. Rufus Fears taught me that a "career" is a French word that means "path." He says it's a path to get from graduation into a retirement home. I have tried to internalize this concept, and it helped me take risks with quitting multiple career-type jobs to open up my own businesses. Roll the dice, and see how they land. Have an adventure, not a career.

One business of mine is a software development company. This is my primary means of livelihood. Right now, I mostly contract out development services to small-to-medium sized organizations that have trouble staffing programmers. The vast majority of my clients are not large enough to hire a full time, on staff, programmer to help do what I (literally me programming, most of the time) do for them. I've developed a relationship with a programmer in Kazakhstan, where I can take advantage of the lower costs to get things developed cheaper than here. However, now I am working primarily with a MUCH more expensive local programmer, since his efficiency is higher, the Kazakh guy isn't as available and finding a new one is a ton of work, and on some projects the local presence far outweighs the cost savings by outsourcing. Plus, the American is my friend, an early mentor that taught me about web programming when we were both employees, and things are slow with him now so I wanted to get started working together (on a relatively small project for a client.) I'm also working on developing a software product for passive income, but that takes a LOT longer, and is much riskier than contracting.

Another business I have is rental property close to the local university. That business is, by definition, tied to my geographical area. When software is slow, rents come in and I can work on home improvement projects. When software is busy, rents still come in and I can pay someone else to do emergency repairs, and put off improvements until a slow time.

The concept of relying on a single employer for all my income is extremely scary to me. I would much rather diversify my software earnings across multiple clients to mitigate risk. Similarly, I'd rather have multiple one-bedroom apartments to rent out as compared to a big house to rent so that when one of the college students decides he cannot pay his rent this summer, and that he's leaving two months early (despite his two, international, trips setup...) I still have rents coming in. I have two companies which provide me with income, in terms of about seven clients/customers/renters. Both the Albuquerque software industry (most of my business is serving local customers) and the Albuquerque university rental market would have to collapse, simultaneously, for me to be majorly screwed. If anything, I'm pretty tied to Albuquerque and should try and diversify geographically more! I love Albuquerque though...

I do not have a family to provide for. I'm working on changing that, with trying to be as good of a boyfriend as I can be, with the goal of getting married someday. I am not saying that you should throw away all sense of security for your family (if you have one) and become a hustler overnight. "Look kids, we get to have the BLUE Ramen noodles for dinner tonight! Insurance? Who needs it?!? Jesus is my insurance!" No, that's not what I'm talking about... My local, subcontractor, friend (that I am just starting to work together with) took the plunge about three months ago and went into business for himself. He has a wife and two kids. He prepared extremely well, and setup enough contracts to be making about 1.7x his salary for the first three months from basically day one. This is his first slow two week period, so we are working together. My local community has all sorts of people that are interested in promoting entrepreneurial activities, helping you get started, and providing free advice. I am extremely

Zactly. Especially close email / other communication channels. Email is not IM. And IM is too intrusive when trying to concentrate, so turn it off. We've solved the problem of easy electronic communication. Now we need to solve the problem of how to minimize its abuse.

Donald Knuth, a guy who knows a thing about computers, and how to make significant contributions to society, famously stopped using email. In 1990. He taught the world many things about computing. There's an important lesson here as well.

The definition above is a visual description of what are generally caused by wind. You want definition 11 in your link.

No, definition 1 is correct. The "body" is not the ocean as a whole, it is the body of denser water within the ocean, and the "surface" is not that of the ocean, but the surface of the higher density water.

The full wave equations are the same, but at the surface there is a simplifying assumption that density of water is much greater than density of air and the density terms can be ignored. The density term is something like (d2-d1)/(d2+d1). If d1 (density of upper layer) is very small compared to d2 (density of lower layer) then that term is essentially d2/d2, or 1. That's not true for an internal wave at the boundary between water layers of different salinity or temperature.

This is an example of internal waves, although it is intended to evoke the calming effect of ocean surface waves. If you had just water and air in that box, the waves would be too small and fast, but by using two liquids of similar density the celerity and amplitude of the waves will be slower and larger, simulating the large scale behavior of ocean surface waves.

The turbulence as internal waves move is also not completely unknown. It is possible to see surface effects of internal waves created by ship wakes, for example.

hope you don't mean the Craig Smart TV HDMI Adapter and Mouse (CVD601) because the reviews for that are awful

Just to add to @gweihir's comment, also 1984 features non-stop war against in inexhaustable and imaginary enemy that sets off random bombs in random locations that the public gathers in. Also the enemy changes occasionally. ('Oceana is at war with East Asia. Ociana has always been at war with East Asia.' when the previous week it was 'East Asia is at peace with Oceana. East Asia has always been at peace with Oceana.')

Also the televisions we buy come with cameras ('They only capture motion/gestures, not images' they promise us. Although they simultaneously claim face-recognition capability.) and word on the street is that idiots will buy a giant microphone to sit in the middle of their coffee table (Amazon Echo is only first-gen) not to mention the whole IOT BS (I call it BS, but it's sadly true)..

I could continue. The parallels are fraught.

I do not want Amazon delivering my order to me at work.

http://www.amazon.com/Silicage...

Not this specific device, but the very similar network exploits for a drug pump specifically and potential impact were already described in Sharper Security, pages 56-57, 68-70.

>> "The software industry has pretty much decided what information patients should receive, and to my knowledge, they have not had any stakeholder input..."

Um...yeah. I'm sure it was a bunch of developers who decided one night to pound a bunch of Mountain Dew and then set up a billing system for a bunch of multi-billion dollar hospital groups that contained hundreds of thousands of items that magically skirt around insurance limits and pre-negotiated fees, then tack on expensive and low-value items, and follow it all up by adding on mysterious charges from other providers months after the original procedures happened.

Actually I used to write about medical software for the medical magazines, when they were first installing it. It was indeed pretty haphazard. They started out as billing systems, for which it worked pretty well, and tacked on other modules, like prescription drug ordering, for which it was not all that successful.

One of the major medical office systems was written by a chiropractor, who designed it after a general accounting program that was used for hardware stores or restaurants and modified for each customer. It worked great for everything that a medical office had in common with hardware stores, but not for the unique stuff that doctors had to do, like saving medical records and reminding patients to come in for followups.

The main thing that medical software did well was meet the billing needs of the insurance companies. They didn't meet the needs of doctors too well. If the doctor didn't repeat every fucking thing he did into a record field, the insurance company wouldn't pay for it. They wound up with enormous billing records, with field after field of data that the insurance companies decided it would be "nice to have," but were useless for doctors (is this prescription a pill or a capsule?). Even today, doctors complain that they have to spend an additional hour a day filling in EMR forms.

What they don't have, and still don't have, is a short narrative that would take 4 handwritten lines in an old medical record, explaining concisely what the fucking problem is with this patient and what the doctor thinks is the best way to manage it. Instead they wind up with a 100-page record that literally no one ever reads, most of which is for the irrational requirements of the insurance company, most of which is transmitted unread to the insurance company's computer.

So the insurance companies are basically spamming the doctor's medical records with billing trivia.

I saw a good book on this recently called the Digital Doctor by Robert Wachter http://www.amazon.com/The-Digi... although if you don't want to buy it you can just read his New York Times op-ed http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03...

The great thing Wachter did was go to Boeing and talk to the engineers who designed jet cockpits about human factors design. The EMRs, which peoples' lives depend on, were designed and pushed on doctors without the basic usability testing that an auto company would use for a cup holder.

until teachers figure out what drawing really is and what the mind is doing when it is drawing.

FWIW it's been figured out (at least, the teaching aspect has been figured out, even if we still don't know what's actually going on inside the brain).

The sensors on the Apple Watch and other devices use specific color range of light to detect blood flow through the skin. The tattoo ink can block it. Yet another reason not to mark up one's body.

I hardly think "Can't use an Apple Watch" ranks very highly on the list of reasons not to get a tattoo since there's such an easy workaround -- don't buy an apple watch.

Or any other heart-rate monitor wristband . http://www.amazon.com/review/R3FS3SRAILIQVA. Of course for anything but the Apple watch, you can just turn the other wrist, right?

Anyone interested in a good theory on how human intelligence actually works should read Jeff Hawkin's (the guy who invented PalmPilot) On Intelligence. It proposes and describes a rather interesting theory on how our perceptions, reactions, and intelligence all work.

Here's Trevor Loudon's book, "Barack Obama and the Enemies Within"
http://www.amazon.com/Trevor-L...
He also researched and wrote "The Enemies Within: Communists, Socialists and Progressives in the U.S. Congress"
http://www.amazon.com/THE-ENEM...

Here's Trevor Loudon talking about his research.
"Marxists in Congress and the Democratic Party"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Now, the Scientific Method requires me to look at Loudon's evidence, and also look for counter-evidence that is objectively true (not mere pooh-poohing of Loudon based on 'gut instinct' or emotion). I'd be very interested if you know of flaws in Loudon's massive works. At the moment it seems that those that worked towards making the US more Marxist not only still there, they have more power than ever before: eg. see Hillary Clinton's relationship to Marxist Saul Alinsky, for example. Surprisingly, Harry Reid is not a Marxist. Corrupt for sure, but no Marxist according to Loudon.

Anyway, I hoped this piqued your interest and you look at it with an open mind. The Matrix is lying in plain sight :) And I welcome any objective facts you have to disprove Loudon's conclusions. Thanks.