Scifi used to be based around some science concept or a science concepts impact on people or society. Now it just seems to be a backdrop to some action adventure movie.
After the Three Mile Island accident in 1979, people were pointing out radiation found all over the state. The problem was, they had no baseline. The radiation was naturally occurring and had been there all along. At the nearby Limerick power plant, they installed monitors on the entrances to make sure workers were not getting exposed at work and taking radioactive dust home with them. One worker keep setting the sensors off, when he came to work. Here his house had a serious radon problem in the basement. This is what brought the problem of radon in homes to national attention. This shows the problem with detecting and cleaning accident contamination. How do you know you have taken the area back to the natural level before the accident, when it has been radioactive all along?
There are standards, then there are defacto standards. Http wasn't originally designed to preform functions beyond show me this, now show me that thing. It was never designed to allow you to order shoes from a web page and pay for them via paypal. Http added functionality Gopher wasn't able to provide. Gopher only showed you lists of links to pages or files. Http allow other objects and text to be displayed. Maintaining a state and workflow wasn't part of its original intent. Yes, Netscape added it, and it became a defacto standard.
Without cookies being sent back to the server, the server doesn't know what you were doing a moment ago. The design does not maintain the state of the system between transactions. There are other ways of doing this, but this is how http was designed. Yes, cookies are being used to track things that are not involved in the state of the transaction. But, it is hard to eliminate something that is key to the way that http works.
There were wifi routers with WiMax receivers built in for home use. I don't know if anyone still sells them in the US. When Sprint bought all the frequencies instead of letting local ISPs use it for last mile installations, it killed the technology in the US. It was deployed in other countries.
WiMax was designed to bring the last mile of internet to the home. Instead, it was used as a mobile phone network. It would be helpful if someone connected all those remote homes with the original idea behind WiMax instead of forcing everyone onto traditional mobile networks.
The Dutch drive all over Europe. They may not need their cars in their own country, but they used them enough everywhere else. Maybe keep them in vast parking lots on the borders?
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Scifi used to be based around some science concept or a science concepts impact on people or society. Now it just seems to be a backdrop to some action adventure movie.
Anything by Heinlein or Jerry Pournelle would fall into the right wing Scifi genre.
Are we moving back to replacing words with pictures? Has Chinese been the right way all along?
has finally begun!
After the Three Mile Island accident in 1979, people were pointing out radiation found all over the state. The problem was, they had no baseline. The radiation was naturally occurring and had been there all along. At the nearby Limerick power plant, they installed monitors on the entrances to make sure workers were not getting exposed at work and taking radioactive dust home with them. One worker keep setting the sensors off, when he came to work. Here his house had a serious radon problem in the basement. This is what brought the problem of radon in homes to national attention. This shows the problem with detecting and cleaning accident contamination. How do you know you have taken the area back to the natural level before the accident, when it has been radioactive all along?
Who knew? (I now return to playing the latest Angry Bird on my iPad)
There are standards, then there are defacto standards. Http wasn't originally designed to preform functions beyond show me this, now show me that thing. It was never designed to allow you to order shoes from a web page and pay for them via paypal. Http added functionality Gopher wasn't able to provide. Gopher only showed you lists of links to pages or files. Http allow other objects and text to be displayed. Maintaining a state and workflow wasn't part of its original intent. Yes, Netscape added it, and it became a defacto standard.
Forgot to include the relevant xkcd reference: https://xkcd.com/869/
Without cookies being sent back to the server, the server doesn't know what you were doing a moment ago. The design does not maintain the state of the system between transactions. There are other ways of doing this, but this is how http was designed. Yes, cookies are being used to track things that are not involved in the state of the transaction. But, it is hard to eliminate something that is key to the way that http works.
Your right!
I blame the Swedish Chef for all of that.
Everyone has been hiding money and information there for years. Everyone from the Nazi's to the Russians to FIFA.
There were wifi routers with WiMax receivers built in for home use. I don't know if anyone still sells them in the US. When Sprint bought all the frequencies instead of letting local ISPs use it for last mile installations, it killed the technology in the US. It was deployed in other countries.
I remember back when I was little, and people were first crawling out of the swamps onto land. Never thought it would last.
Bony fish and their decedents, including tetrapods, did not evolve from sharks, but a common ancestor of both.
WiMax was designed to bring the last mile of internet to the home. Instead, it was used as a mobile phone network. It would be helpful if someone connected all those remote homes with the original idea behind WiMax instead of forcing everyone onto traditional mobile networks.
The Dutch drive all over Europe. They may not need their cars in their own country, but they used them enough everywhere else. Maybe keep them in vast parking lots on the borders?
Too bad the music industry fought like hell to stop the very thing that would eventually make them rich, again.
Followed by Avatar: the desolation of Smaug; Avatar: the worst airbender; and Avatar: the history of the world part II.
They could have submitted a "Right to be Forgotten" request to Google. Oh wait, this isn't Europe. Nevermind.
I still run a Firefox port on PowerPC Macs. They still make a Firefox port for OS/2. Firefox, browser support for abandonware.
The 2 remaining users will be highly upset.
Someone needs to start a company that extracts carbon from CO2 in the air, and then buries it back in coal mines where it came from.
Sorry, responded to wrong line.