Solar panels in the highway road bed is a terrible idea. The transparent top material, quickly scratched and covered with a film of oil, will drastically reduce the efficiency. Consider yourself lucky if you get 5% after the first year of use. And the panels must be armoured against the weight, so they cost x3 the price to start with. A much better plan is to build a roof of standard roof top solar panels over the highway. The panels are tilted to the sun so they get more light(higher efficiency), no covering (higher efficiency), standard solar panels (cheaper), can be changed out easily (easy maintenance), and you drastically reduce snow removal costs (would probably pay for this over 10 years).
Why don't they keep track of visa guests, so they know when they leave? They could compare lists of people leaving the country and comparing it with the list of people on visas.
So if "The only new bit of information that facial recognition provides is that the face matches", then why is the government doing this? These people already identified themselves, the DHS already knows who they are, so why spend the money? This is probably a field test of facial recognition in a semi-controlled enviornment, prior to connecting the system to cameras on street corners.
I expect the NSA paid well for it. If they planned on it being useful to corporations they would fully document it and make it open so others could build upon it.
Take the old Chineese curse "May you live in interesting times", and ask for volunteers. Intel essentially owns the market, they don't need to take risks. If Intel wanted to take risks they wouldn't have killed their home hobyist product line.
Installing grounded wire mesh to the building will block cellphone calls, or you could use radio direction finding and serveilance cameras to find them.
Running common infrastructure is exactly what government was designed for. Having the Government run the internet, just like they run the roads and highways, is a logical choice.
You can't run a cargo ship off wind power, and solar power would be too slow. I suppose you could build the train linking America to China via Siberia/Alaska/Canada, and power that with electricity.
Molten salt Thorium reactors didn't fail. The US stopped using them (after they were shown to work) because pressurized light water reactors produce plutonium for nuclear weapons and thorium reactors don't. Given the entire American nuclear industry is designed for weapons production, it makes no sense to spend money on something that can't.
Make them land on water and you eliminate the "Land" problem. Make the reactor removeable and you can do the maintenance on the aircraft safely. If it crashes in the ocean the radioactive stuff will freeze and be easily recoverable (or forgotten).
You only NEED radiation shielding on a manned aircraft. A bomber sized drone outfitted with lots of missiles and good air defence would be a game changer.
The primary goal of free enterprise is to maximize income while minimizing cost. Removing government regulation lets them increase rates and cutting corners on things that cost them money. The reason for high costs in Canada is called regulatory capture.
The total security of an IT department is a function of how valuable the data they guard is. Putting Trillions of dollars in comercial data into the same cloud provider as is guarding government secrets makes it very easy to justify a massive attack budget, and long term infiltration plans.
The Police use radios to call for help if they get in trouble. They also have a legal monopoly on those frequencies, and guns. I expect they will find a way to shut that noise off.
Slashdot Mirror
Solar panels in the highway road bed is a terrible idea. The transparent top material, quickly scratched and covered with a film of oil, will drastically reduce the efficiency. Consider yourself lucky if you get 5% after the first year of use. And the panels must be armoured against the weight, so they cost x3 the price to start with. A much better plan is to build a roof of standard roof top solar panels over the highway. The panels are tilted to the sun so they get more light(higher efficiency), no covering (higher efficiency), standard solar panels (cheaper), can be changed out easily (easy maintenance), and you drastically reduce snow removal costs (would probably pay for this over 10 years).
If the identification process doesn't work, that needs to be solved. Otherwise criminals/terrorists can fly using fake ID.
Why don't they keep track of visa guests, so they know when they leave? They could compare lists of people leaving the country and comparing it with the list of people on visas.
So if "The only new bit of information that facial recognition provides is that the face matches", then why is the government doing this? These people already identified themselves, the DHS already knows who they are, so why spend the money? This is probably a field test of facial recognition in a semi-controlled enviornment, prior to connecting the system to cameras on street corners.
They already know who left the country, those people bought tickets and presented government issued ID.
I expect the NSA paid well for it. If they planned on it being useful to corporations they would fully document it and make it open so others could build upon it.
Take the old Chineese curse "May you live in interesting times", and ask for volunteers. Intel essentially owns the market, they don't need to take risks. If Intel wanted to take risks they wouldn't have killed their home hobyist product line.
Installing grounded wire mesh to the building will block cellphone calls, or you could use radio direction finding and serveilance cameras to find them.
Canada sells uranium to France.
Terrorism spreads like cancer. If you ignore it "over there" then it will eventually come after you.
It really depends on how far the king of North Korea can be pushed by a mad-man, and how strongly China can hold him back.
So just like the first half?
Running common infrastructure is exactly what government was designed for. Having the Government run the internet, just like they run the roads and highways, is a logical choice.
What if EVERY single corporation using GMO's appear to be EVIL?
You can't run a cargo ship off wind power, and solar power would be too slow. I suppose you could build the train linking America to China via Siberia/Alaska/Canada, and power that with electricity.
Molten salt Thorium reactors didn't fail. The US stopped using them (after they were shown to work) because pressurized light water reactors produce plutonium for nuclear weapons and thorium reactors don't. Given the entire American nuclear industry is designed for weapons production, it makes no sense to spend money on something that can't.
Make them land on water and you eliminate the "Land" problem. Make the reactor removeable and you can do the maintenance on the aircraft safely. If it crashes in the ocean the radioactive stuff will freeze and be easily recoverable (or forgotten).
Those sulfer compounds create sulpheric acid (acid rain) that kills fresh water fish.
You only NEED radiation shielding on a manned aircraft. A bomber sized drone outfitted with lots of missiles and good air defence would be a game changer.
Or the State owns the last mile, and everyone gets to share.
The primary goal of free enterprise is to maximize income while minimizing cost. Removing government regulation lets them increase rates and cutting corners on things that cost them money. The reason for high costs in Canada is called regulatory capture.
The corporations that paid to have network neutrality removed have 2 full years to show everyone how badly they were sold out.
The total security of an IT department is a function of how valuable the data they guard is. Putting Trillions of dollars in comercial data into the same cloud provider as is guarding government secrets makes it very easy to justify a massive attack budget, and long term infiltration plans.
They said the same thing about how expensive highway and roads are, so the government paid for it.
The Police use radios to call for help if they get in trouble. They also have a legal monopoly on those frequencies, and guns. I expect they will find a way to shut that noise off.