Is there anything Americans aren't terrified of today?
Looking down through the remarks here, it appears that one of the fearful is trying to assuage his fears by marking us all as trolls.
Sorry - it doesn't work, muchacho. You're still one cold flash away from peeing your pants. That silly little parrot drone has you in a cold sweat.
The right wing kook with his houseful of guns, the left wing asshole in their gated neighborhood, with their ADT protected house, and their safe room still don't feel safe, no matter what they do.
Americans have turned panphobia into a core competency.
But this is actually a bigger issue for corporate use of cloud services. What if your company has an official Twitter feed or Facebook wall which needs to be updated by multiple people?
You lost me at Twitter and Facebook.
Those two "services" are right up there with web advertising.
I don't give a damn, and I have no sympathy for anything that goes wrong with that bit of douchbaggery.
I mean, whatever could go wrong with multiple employees having the same password? If a business is so damn stupid as to do that, they don't have much to bitch about when the inevitable happens.
"With human presence in space, I'll suppport almost any amount. With robot only? $0.00 dollars."
That's why exploration beyond the moon is going to be robots first (already underway) followed by private-sector humans when robots have brought down the costs and the way is prepared for them.
Guns and the worship of them is one of the direct manifestations of that fear.
To me this is eminently logical and rational and it annoys me when ignorant people make puerile comments about gun owners or those who choose to carry, suggesting for example that they are "compensating" or the like.
I suggest nothing. I state
Unfortunately, it's practically impossible to have a rational conversation about guns anymore in the United States due to extremes on both sides of the issue
As I have told many of them "When you cast everyone who doesn't agree with you 100 percent as an enemy, don't be too surprised when everyone ends up being your enemy.
That's why the apollo missions were cancelled. Everybody lost interest by the third one.
Apollo had done what it set out to do. The reason it was canceled, aside from that, was to free up money for another manned project, the Shuttle, which first started studies in 1968.
Apollo 20 mission was cancelled to free up a Saturn rocket to launch Skylab - another manned mission to earth orbit, in an early spce station effort.
Budget considerations had also only built 15 Saturn 5 rockets, so the extra missions were never really seriously planned.
Your revisionist history is based on popculturish news media self aggrandizement thinking that because they - the media - had lost interest in covering moon launches, that everyone had.
Robots are drifting on Mars like whiny 90's yuppies, lassooing and riding comets like rodeo stars, dropping in on Titan like an annoying aunt, flashing past Pluto like overenthusiastic paparazzi. Robots have left the solar system.
And that is damn awesome. I love that kind of stuff. But unless there is a human presence off earth, there isn't much point ot it, other than we'd just like to knowabout stuff. Worthy? Yes. The sole focus - no.
Many humans have a deep seated need and desire to explore. Others are reverse terra firma types - the more firma, the less terra.
Robots aren't going to wait for your permission to go to space: sorry.
And they will have my blessing. As long as there is a manned presence there also.
Is there anything Americans aren't terrified of today?
Guns.
Drones must be registered, but unlike in other nations, it's societally acceptable that wingnuts can purchase a gun and then shoot innocent children.
Because FREEDOM.
Guns and the worship of them is one of the direct manifestations of that fear.
If only someone owuld think of putting a sort of limited access to a computer. You know, like something where they could log in, but not access your email?
They could call it a "Guest Account". Yeah, someone should invent that.
Yeah, it would be great to be able to launch fuel from the moon, but how easy is it to get a fueling station there? My intuition is that it would take a lot more resources to build a moonbase capable of sending up the fuel for trips to Mars than it would to just ship everything for the trip to Mars directly from the Earth. This approach only makes any kind of sense if you plan on going to Mars a lot- or if you're just looking for a convenient excuse to build a moonbase.
A sensible plan that we know would work is launch and assembly in earth orbit. We can get everything needed from earth.
I don't have any issues with the concept of building a ferry - in the manner of the way we built the ISS, in earth orbit, then having the mars landers and other needed logistics rendezvous with it. But building and operating a moon base, would at best add years to the schedule, and at worst, bring the program to it's knees and kill it off
I still haven't seen the final numbers on exactly how much water there is to exploit on the moon, so until that number is known, its hardly even worth the argument of producing fuel at a lunar base. We could spend years arguing, and find out that there just isn't enough raw materials on the moon.
Is the technology for creating fuel on the moon mature and worked out? Certainly if the raw materials were limited in supply, any surprise inefficiencies in the production will kill the program.
How much extra logistics will be needed to operate the lunar base? How much fuel to get the lunar produced fuel to lunar orbit?
There's simply too many things that need to be "just so" to even consider this option, outside of people just wanting to argue about stuff.
Awfully light on the kinds of fuel that might be made. Pipe dream, but where's the pipe? The moon may or may not have much water ice. Apart making H and O (requiring large storage tanks... that have to come from Earth)... what else is there? Where are the BIG CARBON deposits on the moon? No C, no hydrocarbates. Going to bring the carbon from Earth?
This idea might have come from a 12-year-old, so far as the article is concerned. Except that a 12-year-old would probably be more practical.
Read the article. It's very precise calculations built upon a foundation of a guess.
If you want an "efficient" mars mission, the last thing you want is to send people. That sort of thinking is just stuck in the past, like old science fiction whose idea of an automated car was one driven by a robot. They are successfully reducing launch mass by using smaller robot probes. Miniaturisation is the key.
Robots are good and all, but they have one big problem.
With human presence in space, I'll suppport almost any amount. With robot only? $0.00 dollars.
Many are just like me - and I would campaign actively to make sure that no money figure happens.
Robot lovers have to realize that they are the tail, not the dog. I like science. I like human exploration. When both happen, it's magic.
All we have to do to make this very smart study 100 percent true, is in addition to the fuel production plant on the moon, as this awesome gizmo that allows us to get all this shit to the moon for free.
So Have these geniuses calculated exactly how much water is on the moon? And how do they know? Enough to fuel every lanuch to mars - plus the water needed by the operators?
What is the specific tonnage of water on the moon? Maybe that is important. Or maybe we can send water form earth there and still save money.
Every single MOON FIRST! scenario seems to need a "Here sumpin cool happens" placed right in the middle of the equation, and without it, the whole thing fails.
So instead of using present technology to develop and go to Mars, we're going to embark on a hundred year project to just get started.
Anyhow, it was quite cool reading the precise calculations based upon a wild-ass guess.
Seriously, Windows doesn't give a rats ass if you don't want to update. I've had several that have just happened, no choice on my part other than not connecting to the internet.
Choices, many of them, only none for you. I would bet my life that Enterprise phones home whether you like ot or not
Troll? Looks like the shills have mod points tonight.
You can do as you will, but it's the truth. I have a Windows Ten system in a sacrificial computer on my desk. Windows 10 Professional. And Windows forces updates on it although I have it set to delay them and notify me. It asked a few times, now it just does updates without any input from me.
If rather than ad blocking, users employed an app that downloaded the ads but neglected to render them, the advertisers would be paying for ads that well to null but they could never tell.
Teo problems with that - First is if you are on any kind of cap. I was reading a bloggers site where he wanted to read a 500 word document, but without his blocker it was 40 Megabytes of advertising shit downloaded to hi mobile. Doesn't take too much of that, and he's up to his cap limit.
Second is How would they know? I and many I know refuse to buy anything they see in intrusive internet ads. That shit they (try to) put on my computer is ignored wherever it ends up.
I still like the idea of th etwo pronged defense:
1 a good ad blocker
2. Pretending to be a "good netizen" but send out completely bogus info to them on where you visit. Make their tracking 100 percent worthless.
Again, if you are trying to hide your behavior from someone because they wouldn't like it or it would embarrass you or others, it's YOU who has the problem.
Wuffo you trying to make this a digital situation, where a person who desires any privacy has to be some sort of sicko versus a person who is so pure in mind and thought, that their internet habits should be engraved on a plaque and displayed as a sign of purity?
Because if someone wants to look at shemale midget scat porn, well, that's pretty creepy, but it ain't illegal.
What we ar etalking about is embarassments, and judgements based on incomplete data, like big data assuming the OP was an Alcoholic and using underhand tactict to try to help him.
And how this kind of crap can wreck your life, as if in my job, if I was thought an alcoholic, I'd probably lose it.
Bad judgements via big data based on incomplete data.
And your pure as the driven snow internet use data might not be as above reproach as you think. And what is pure today, might not be pure tomorow.
Let's take my habits for instance.
I watch a lot of youtube videos. Many of them about chemistry, and I'm a slut for military history and nucs, and rockets.
See where this is going?
I also have a side hobby of making metal stuff with machine shop tools, so I'm looking at how-to's in metalworking
.
Amateur Radio, Amateur Telescope Making, linux stuff.
Probably the most innocent part of what I do there is I enjoy Karl Pilkington videos, although with the things that go boom and chemistry interest and prepperish DIY inclinations, plus possibly a peeping Tom, they might conclude I was insane as well.
DANGER, WILL ROBINSON!
We got ourselves a mis-crea-ant heah!
See, that's the problem. I don't know what the guy you are arguing over has to hide - if he has anything to hide. If he's doing something illegal, he'll be caught eventually. If not, I don't give a flying wallenda. But your idea that anyone who doesn't want interstalked is some sort of criminal is just wrong.
It isn't what is "wrong" now, it's what might be "wrong" in the future. It's following a legal and possibly helpful link that might get you branded as something you aren't, and end up destroying your life.
And all in the name of what? Providing me advertisements of things I already bought? And the natural spreading out of that surveillance, oops stalking, ooops, helping you enjoy a better web experience.
Provide your web habits, and I suspect I could make some determinations about your likelyhood of being a criminal, without you ever having broken a law. Care to play, Tattoo?
If you worry that a current or future employer might take exception to your activities, you might consider not doing them so you don't have to worry about it. But if you still want to pretend to be something you are not, you are responsible for having to worry about the duplicity being exposed.
Keeping a surprise gift secret from your wife, while a *possible* reason to be concerned, doesn't represent a huge risk, assuming she would actually like the gift. Not to mention that if you are acting trustworthy and open in the rest of your interactions with her, she's not likely to be checking up on you and running though your browser history on a regular basis anyway. Besides, if MY wife happened to catch on to something I was setting up to surprise her, she would either express her excitement right away, or wait for the "surprise" and do it then. I'm golden either way for going to the effort for her, so I'm not that worried about her finding out.
If he only has more or less one route back and forth, a system of Infrared leds, that might hang on the ceiling or walls.
A "necklace", kind like those ones that are used in those home alert ones, but with something like a RaspPi in them. The IR LED's would be flashing in a manner similar to a remote. Some would mean "Go straight", some "Turn Right", some would mean "Turn Left"
Now the next part is on the Necklace. It has a IR receiver, and has a speaker that blurts out the needed direction. Since the directions are different depending whether he's coming or going, you'll have to shield the Transmitting LED's
MIR was leaking oxygen and had several fires. Most of MIR was completely uninhabitable for most of its life.
Mir was occupied by humans for 12.5 years out of it's 15 year life.
It was designed for a 5 year lifespan, which was extended by 10 years. While in orbit, Mir suffered some mishaps, and it was an old and dilapidated beast in the end, but as successes go, it was one hell of a good one.
clear her system, disable updates and have a good backup plan so you can always restore from read-only media (yeah, dvd) anytime you want.
seriously. disable updates and have a good backup/restore strat and test it to be sure you can do a restore.
Seriously, Windows doesn't give a rats ass if you don't want to update. I've had several that have just happened, no choice on my part other than not connecting to the internet.
Choices, many of them, only none for you. I would bet my life that Enterprise phones home whether you like ot or not
I know people are going to cry "Second Amendment" and everything, but if you're so stupid as to leave a weapon where a 2 year old can get to it (especially if it's in the back seat of a car with the child in the back), you should lose your right to own a gun.
Well, remember about 10 years back, a little boy picked up what he thoufgth was a toy gun, and gut shot his little sister. Killed her. when the police investigated, it turned out that the parents, had firearms stacked iun every room of the house.
the children's toy guns were in those stacks.
Their defense? Their second amendment rights.
It was at that moment that I understood something as a gun owner. The nuts out there care much more about those guns than they do their opwn families. If I left a stack of guns in my house and my child gutshot his little sister and killed her, I'd probably blow my on head off, but if I somehow didn't, Id surely plead guilty because I was guilty.
Not proclaim my innocence because of the sedond amendment.
All I can say is I hope those muthafuks have nightmares>
"Privacy in your own home" isn't really at risk here, unless you are talking about "privacy to post on Facebook in my house"
Actually, it is - and big time.
The provider of this story notes that he was being stalked by Alcoholics anonymous in multiple ways - including FB.
This isn't like kiddie diddlers looking at their porn, or any other nefarious use some folks might have for the web - it's a person who looks at an online calendar of AA, and is now branded as an alcoholic by big data.
That is a decision by big data that would have life changing ramifications for some folks.
Let's take me for example. I am a very spare drinker, perhaps a beer a month.
In my job, you couldn't have your clearance and be an alcoholic - mostly - if you were actively getting treatment/counseling - possibly, but you'd likely be transferred at best.
Soooooo if I was in that guys position, branded as an alcoholic while actually being on the very shallow end of the consumption pool, I would probably end up having to join AA and get other treatment for a problem I don't have in order to keep my job.
Coupled with - I would have to pretend I actually was, because if I told them the truth, I'd be declared as "resisting treatment". That's seriously insane.
I was going for funny, but I probably deserve the off topic mods I'm getting.
I would have given you the funny mod if I had the points.
I'm rather fond of old Moo-Man, or Woman, as the case may be. Rising out of nowhere to make a goofy cow joke. As trolls go, this is the gentlest one out there. Moo person may take their place among slashdot classics like Beowulf clusters, insensitive clods, and others. Netcraft will confirm that.
Quite bizzare. These cave dwellers in apartment have destroyed the market for big 4 wheel drive extended bed extended cab dually equipped pickup trucks?
No one is very likely to own one when they live in an urban apartment with no parking spaces available either. You see a lot of them around here though.
Or that a SmartCar is a failure because not many people in snowy rural areas own them?
Anti-EV slashdotters seem to think that unless a vehicle does all things, and is a true volkscar, that it is a failure. Or more likely don't like EV's, so come up with mighty ridiculous excuses that they won't work.
There are a lot of different types of vehicles, and a lot of different people to buy them.
The Tesla and it's soon to be on the road cousins seem to be selling, seem to be stressing their recharging system availability because of that popularity, so I kinda doubt that apartment dwellers in NYC who don't have any vehicle at all are going to be able to dictate their success or failure, despite your wishes.
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Think of the Children!
Terrorists!
They're takin our Jerbs! Drones!
Is there anything Americans aren't terrified of today?
Looking down through the remarks here, it appears that one of the fearful is trying to assuage his fears by marking us all as trolls.
Sorry - it doesn't work, muchacho. You're still one cold flash away from peeing your pants. That silly little parrot drone has you in a cold sweat.
The right wing kook with his houseful of guns, the left wing asshole in their gated neighborhood, with their ADT protected house, and their safe room still don't feel safe, no matter what they do.
Americans have turned panphobia into a core competency.
But this is actually a bigger issue for corporate use of cloud services. What if your company has an official Twitter feed or Facebook wall which needs to be updated by multiple people?
You lost me at Twitter and Facebook.
Those two "services" are right up there with web advertising.
I don't give a damn, and I have no sympathy for anything that goes wrong with that bit of douchbaggery.
I mean, whatever could go wrong with multiple employees having the same password? If a business is so damn stupid as to do that, they don't have much to bitch about when the inevitable happens.
"With human presence in space, I'll suppport almost any amount. With robot only? $0.00 dollars."
That's why exploration beyond the moon is going to be robots first (already underway) followed by private-sector humans when robots have brought down the costs and the way is prepared for them.
Works for me.
Guns and the worship of them is one of the direct manifestations of that fear.
To me this is eminently logical and rational and it annoys me when ignorant people make puerile comments about gun owners or those who choose to carry, suggesting for example that they are "compensating" or the like.
I suggest nothing. I state
Unfortunately, it's practically impossible to have a rational conversation about guns anymore in the United States due to extremes on both sides of the issue
As I have told many of them "When you cast everyone who doesn't agree with you 100 percent as an enemy, don't be too surprised when everyone ends up being your enemy.
That's why the apollo missions were cancelled. Everybody lost interest by the third one.
Apollo had done what it set out to do. The reason it was canceled, aside from that, was to free up money for another manned project, the Shuttle, which first started studies in 1968.
Apollo 20 mission was cancelled to free up a Saturn rocket to launch Skylab - another manned mission to earth orbit, in an early spce station effort.
Budget considerations had also only built 15 Saturn 5 rockets, so the extra missions were never really seriously planned.
Your revisionist history is based on popculturish news media self aggrandizement thinking that because they - the media - had lost interest in covering moon launches, that everyone had.
Robots are drifting on Mars like whiny 90's yuppies, lassooing and riding comets like rodeo stars, dropping in on Titan like an annoying aunt, flashing past Pluto like overenthusiastic paparazzi. Robots have left the solar system.
And that is damn awesome. I love that kind of stuff. But unless there is a human presence off earth, there isn't much point ot it, other than we'd just like to knowabout stuff. Worthy? Yes. The sole focus - no.
Many humans have a deep seated need and desire to explore. Others are reverse terra firma types - the more firma, the less terra.
Robots aren't going to wait for your permission to go to space: sorry.
And they will have my blessing. As long as there is a manned presence there also.
Is there anything Americans aren't terrified of today?
Guns. Drones must be registered, but unlike in other nations, it's societally acceptable that wingnuts can purchase a gun and then shoot innocent children. Because FREEDOM.
Guns and the worship of them is one of the direct manifestations of that fear.
Terrorists!
They're takin our Jerbs! Drones!
Is there anything Americans aren't terrified of today?
They could call it a "Guest Account". Yeah, someone should invent that.
Yeah, it would be great to be able to launch fuel from the moon, but how easy is it to get a fueling station there? My intuition is that it would take a lot more resources to build a moonbase capable of sending up the fuel for trips to Mars than it would to just ship everything for the trip to Mars directly from the Earth. This approach only makes any kind of sense if you plan on going to Mars a lot- or if you're just looking for a convenient excuse to build a moonbase.
A sensible plan that we know would work is launch and assembly in earth orbit. We can get everything needed from earth.
I don't have any issues with the concept of building a ferry - in the manner of the way we built the ISS, in earth orbit, then having the mars landers and other needed logistics rendezvous with it. But building and operating a moon base, would at best add years to the schedule, and at worst, bring the program to it's knees and kill it off I still haven't seen the final numbers on exactly how much water there is to exploit on the moon, so until that number is known, its hardly even worth the argument of producing fuel at a lunar base. We could spend years arguing, and find out that there just isn't enough raw materials on the moon.
Is the technology for creating fuel on the moon mature and worked out? Certainly if the raw materials were limited in supply, any surprise inefficiencies in the production will kill the program.
How much extra logistics will be needed to operate the lunar base? How much fuel to get the lunar produced fuel to lunar orbit?
There's simply too many things that need to be "just so" to even consider this option, outside of people just wanting to argue about stuff.
Awfully light on the kinds of fuel that might be made. Pipe dream, but where's the pipe? The moon may or may not have much water ice. Apart making H and O (requiring large storage tanks ... that have to come from Earth) ... what else is there? Where are the BIG CARBON deposits on the moon? No C, no hydrocarbates. Going to bring the carbon from Earth?
This idea might have come from a 12-year-old, so far as the article is concerned. Except that a 12-year-old would probably be more practical.
Read the article. It's very precise calculations built upon a foundation of a guess.
If you want an "efficient" mars mission, the last thing you want is to send people. That sort of thinking is just stuck in the past, like old science fiction whose idea of an automated car was one driven by a robot. They are successfully reducing launch mass by using smaller robot probes. Miniaturisation is the key.
Robots are good and all, but they have one big problem.
With human presence in space, I'll suppport almost any amount. With robot only? $0.00 dollars.
Many are just like me - and I would campaign actively to make sure that no money figure happens.
Robot lovers have to realize that they are the tail, not the dog. I like science. I like human exploration. When both happen, it's magic.
So Have these geniuses calculated exactly how much water is on the moon? And how do they know? Enough to fuel every lanuch to mars - plus the water needed by the operators?
What is the specific tonnage of water on the moon? Maybe that is important. Or maybe we can send water form earth there and still save money.
Every single MOON FIRST! scenario seems to need a "Here sumpin cool happens" placed right in the middle of the equation, and without it, the whole thing fails.
So instead of using present technology to develop and go to Mars, we're going to embark on a hundred year project to just get started.
Anyhow, it was quite cool reading the precise calculations based upon a wild-ass guess.
Seriously, Windows doesn't give a rats ass if you don't want to update. I've had several that have just happened, no choice on my part other than not connecting to the internet.
Choices, many of them, only none for you. I would bet my life that Enterprise phones home whether you like ot or not
Troll? Looks like the shills have mod points tonight.
You can do as you will, but it's the truth. I have a Windows Ten system in a sacrificial computer on my desk. Windows 10 Professional. And Windows forces updates on it although I have it set to delay them and notify me. It asked a few times, now it just does updates without any input from me.
Only in Windowsworld is the truth trolling.
Not very surprising, I suppose.
If rather than ad blocking, users employed an app that downloaded the ads but neglected to render them, the advertisers would be paying for ads that well to null but they could never tell.
Teo problems with that - First is if you are on any kind of cap. I was reading a bloggers site where he wanted to read a 500 word document, but without his blocker it was 40 Megabytes of advertising shit downloaded to hi mobile. Doesn't take too much of that, and he's up to his cap limit.
Second is How would they know? I and many I know refuse to buy anything they see in intrusive internet ads. That shit they (try to) put on my computer is ignored wherever it ends up.
I still like the idea of th etwo pronged defense: 1 a good ad blocker
2. Pretending to be a "good netizen" but send out completely bogus info to them on where you visit. Make their tracking 100 percent worthless.
it's means it is
it's is a possessive. Mir possesed it's 15 year life.
Again, if you are trying to hide your behavior from someone because they wouldn't like it or it would embarrass you or others, it's YOU who has the problem.
Wuffo you trying to make this a digital situation, where a person who desires any privacy has to be some sort of sicko versus a person who is so pure in mind and thought, that their internet habits should be engraved on a plaque and displayed as a sign of purity?
Because if someone wants to look at shemale midget scat porn, well, that's pretty creepy, but it ain't illegal.
What we ar etalking about is embarassments, and judgements based on incomplete data, like big data assuming the OP was an Alcoholic and using underhand tactict to try to help him.
And how this kind of crap can wreck your life, as if in my job, if I was thought an alcoholic, I'd probably lose it.
Bad judgements via big data based on incomplete data.
And your pure as the driven snow internet use data might not be as above reproach as you think. And what is pure today, might not be pure tomorow.
Let's take my habits for instance.
I watch a lot of youtube videos. Many of them about chemistry, and I'm a slut for military history and nucs, and rockets.
See where this is going?
I also have a side hobby of making metal stuff with machine shop tools, so I'm looking at how-to's in metalworking
. Amateur Radio, Amateur Telescope Making, linux stuff.
Probably the most innocent part of what I do there is I enjoy Karl Pilkington videos, although with the things that go boom and chemistry interest and prepperish DIY inclinations, plus possibly a peeping Tom, they might conclude I was insane as well.
DANGER, WILL ROBINSON!
We got ourselves a mis-crea-ant heah!
See, that's the problem. I don't know what the guy you are arguing over has to hide - if he has anything to hide. If he's doing something illegal, he'll be caught eventually. If not, I don't give a flying wallenda. But your idea that anyone who doesn't want interstalked is some sort of criminal is just wrong.
It isn't what is "wrong" now, it's what might be "wrong" in the future. It's following a legal and possibly helpful link that might get you branded as something you aren't, and end up destroying your life.
And all in the name of what? Providing me advertisements of things I already bought? And the natural spreading out of that surveillance, oops stalking, ooops, helping you enjoy a better web experience.
Provide your web habits, and I suspect I could make some determinations about your likelyhood of being a criminal, without you ever having broken a law. Care to play, Tattoo? If you worry that a current or future employer might take exception to your activities, you might consider not doing them so you don't have to worry about it. But if you still want to pretend to be something you are not, you are responsible for having to worry about the duplicity being exposed.
Keeping a surprise gift secret from your wife, while a *possible* reason to be concerned, doesn't represent a huge risk, assuming she would actually like the gift. Not to mention that if you are acting trustworthy and open in the rest of your interactions with her, she's not likely to be checking up on you and running though your browser history on a regular basis anyway. Besides, if MY wife happened to catch on to something I was setting up to surprise her, she would either express her excitement right away, or wait for the "surprise" and do it then. I'm golden either way for going to the effort for her, so I'm not that worried about her finding out.
If he only has more or less one route back and forth, a system of Infrared leds, that might hang on the ceiling or walls.
A "necklace", kind like those ones that are used in those home alert ones, but with something like a RaspPi in them. The IR LED's would be flashing in a manner similar to a remote. Some would mean "Go straight", some "Turn Right", some would mean "Turn Left"
Now the next part is on the Necklace. It has a IR receiver, and has a speaker that blurts out the needed direction. Since the directions are different depending whether he's coming or going, you'll have to shield the Transmitting LED's
MIR was leaking oxygen and had several fires. Most of MIR was completely uninhabitable for most of its life.
Mir was occupied by humans for 12.5 years out of it's 15 year life.
It was designed for a 5 year lifespan, which was extended by 10 years. While in orbit, Mir suffered some mishaps, and it was an old and dilapidated beast in the end, but as successes go, it was one hell of a good one.
clear her system, disable updates and have a good backup plan so you can always restore from read-only media (yeah, dvd) anytime you want.
seriously. disable updates and have a good backup/restore strat and test it to be sure you can do a restore.
Seriously, Windows doesn't give a rats ass if you don't want to update. I've had several that have just happened, no choice on my part other than not connecting to the internet.
Choices, many of them, only none for you. I would bet my life that Enterprise phones home whether you like ot or not
I know people are going to cry "Second Amendment" and everything, but if you're so stupid as to leave a weapon where a 2 year old can get to it (especially if it's in the back seat of a car with the child in the back), you should lose your right to own a gun.
Well, remember about 10 years back, a little boy picked up what he thoufgth was a toy gun, and gut shot his little sister. Killed her. when the police investigated, it turned out that the parents, had firearms stacked iun every room of the house.
the children's toy guns were in those stacks.
Their defense? Their second amendment rights.
It was at that moment that I understood something as a gun owner. The nuts out there care much more about those guns than they do their opwn families. If I left a stack of guns in my house and my child gutshot his little sister and killed her, I'd probably blow my on head off, but if I somehow didn't, Id surely plead guilty because I was guilty.
Not proclaim my innocence because of the sedond amendment.
All I can say is I hope those muthafuks have nightmares>
"Privacy in your own home" isn't really at risk here, unless you are talking about "privacy to post on Facebook in my house"
Actually, it is - and big time.
The provider of this story notes that he was being stalked by Alcoholics anonymous in multiple ways - including FB.
This isn't like kiddie diddlers looking at their porn, or any other nefarious use some folks might have for the web - it's a person who looks at an online calendar of AA, and is now branded as an alcoholic by big data.
That is a decision by big data that would have life changing ramifications for some folks.
Let's take me for example. I am a very spare drinker, perhaps a beer a month.
In my job, you couldn't have your clearance and be an alcoholic - mostly - if you were actively getting treatment/counseling - possibly, but you'd likely be transferred at best.
Soooooo if I was in that guys position, branded as an alcoholic while actually being on the very shallow end of the consumption pool, I would probably end up having to join AA and get other treatment for a problem I don't have in order to keep my job.
Coupled with - I would have to pretend I actually was, because if I told them the truth, I'd be declared as "resisting treatment". That's seriously insane.
This is a screwed up world we live in..
Where is the granularity?
I think the line is well crossed when Google Profiles a person as an alcoholic, and provides that information to others.
For certain occupations in certain sectors, that is a instrument of career destruction.
I am fully convinced that we need a two pronged defense against data gone wild.
One of course, is to limit our exposure via the normal blocking programs.
Second, we need programs that regularly send out so much fake data that this tracking is rendered useless.
You can use the money you charged for charging to build more chargers so you can charge more for charging.
Or, if you don't have the money up front, you can just charge it.
Captcha: stammers
Ack! Can't believe I missed that one. Thank you very much
I was going for funny, but I probably deserve the off topic mods I'm getting.
I would have given you the funny mod if I had the points.
I'm rather fond of old Moo-Man, or Woman, as the case may be. Rising out of nowhere to make a goofy cow joke. As trolls go, this is the gentlest one out there. Moo person may take their place among slashdot classics like Beowulf clusters, insensitive clods, and others. Netcraft will confirm that.
The reason is because of things like this, yes.
Quite bizzare. These cave dwellers in apartment have destroyed the market for big 4 wheel drive extended bed extended cab dually equipped pickup trucks?
No one is very likely to own one when they live in an urban apartment with no parking spaces available either. You see a lot of them around here though.
Or that a SmartCar is a failure because not many people in snowy rural areas own them?
Anti-EV slashdotters seem to think that unless a vehicle does all things, and is a true volkscar, that it is a failure. Or more likely don't like EV's, so come up with mighty ridiculous excuses that they won't work. There are a lot of different types of vehicles, and a lot of different people to buy them.
The Tesla and it's soon to be on the road cousins seem to be selling, seem to be stressing their recharging system availability because of that popularity, so I kinda doubt that apartment dwellers in NYC who don't have any vehicle at all are going to be able to dictate their success or failure, despite your wishes.