A remote thermostat should not require anything more than a few bits of data when you send it a command, or if it needs to send you a notification of a problem. Most of the bits required ought to be for secure authentication. Throttling should not be an issue. Strangling would be a more accurate term if it couldn't work.
I still use it. I was initially disappointed that Mozilla wasn't doing anything with Thunderbird. However, at least that meant a stop to ruining it like they did with Firefox. If they had kept going, by now Thunderbird would probably be a webmail app that looks like it is running in Chrome.
Lots of cheap digital clocks count cycles. It's 60 Hz on land here, but most ships have 50 Hz power. My alarm clock was useless when I went offshore. Switched to a battery powered alarm clock. Every so often someone new would come out and be late getting up and wonder what was wrong with their alarm clock.
"Freedom" had its brief stint in human history, but in a few decades from now nobody will remember what it was. And given how parents today raise children used to permanent observation, the grownups by then will probably never have experienced freedom first and, and won't know what they are missing.
TV is preparing kids for this future.
Ever seen a show called "Special Agent Oso"?
They have surveillance cameras in drones that look like ladybugs watching the children.
Here I thought Germany had it's collective head screwed on straight. Boy was I ever wrong, I guess.
Yeah, at first glance I thought "Germany is gonna wave the BAN stick around and be rid of this backdoor nonsense."
Sad how wrong we were. Unless it is some sort of reverse psychology sort of thing where they want support to ban backdoors, and this is just to wind people up to help get the support to ban it.
In a million years when the aliens come, they find no sign of life in the solar system, but they find a car in orbit around the fourth planet, and say "da fuck"?
We already have dishwashers for the washing part, the hard part is getting the robot to collect everything, not break or spill anything, clean the big chunks off, load the dishwasher and run it. Then inspect, unload and put it away.
The good news is if you can build a robot to do that, it should be a no-brainer to get it to do laundry and garbage duties as well. Probably get it to cook too.
About using balloons: If that was a feasible way to get payloads into an orbit (because that's what you have to do if you want to return whatever went down to the surface), don't you think that we might be already doing something like this here on earth? One of the key problems of spaceflight is that rocket engines behave vastly differently at sea level than they do in near vacuum and that we waste nearly all the fuel just to get out of the denser parts of our atmosphere, so if this could work in any way we'd probably already be doing it.
Sorry, I'm not sold. I've read it and they make some interesting claims, but so far it fails to convince.
The atmosphere on Venus is significantly more dense than on Earth.
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FBI Chief Calls Unbreakable Encryption 'Urgent Public Safety Issue'
I agree 100%. For the public's safety, we must all adopt unbreakable encryption immediately.
A remote thermostat should not require anything more than a few bits of data when you send it a command, or if it needs to send you a notification of a problem. Most of the bits required ought to be for secure authentication. Throttling should not be an issue. Strangling would be a more accurate term if it couldn't work.
If the recent movies have left you dissatisfied go check out some of the novels from the expanded universe.
There were a few stinkers in the Expanded Universe, but I really enjoyed the majority of the novels.
I still use it. I was initially disappointed that Mozilla wasn't doing anything with Thunderbird. However, at least that meant a stop to ruining it like they did with Firefox. If they had kept going, by now Thunderbird would probably be a webmail app that looks like it is running in Chrome.
Daylight Saving Time is a great idea. Ditching it in the winter is the problem. Just keep it year round and eliminate the stupid changing.
This. "Spring Forward", then leave it there. No further changes. (Except for the occasional leap seconds.)
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Lots of cheap digital clocks count cycles. It's 60 Hz on land here, but most ships have 50 Hz power. My alarm clock was useless when I went offshore. Switched to a battery powered alarm clock. Every so often someone new would come out and be late getting up and wonder what was wrong with their alarm clock.
The player can also handle any music format,
Really? How about sheet music? Player piano punch cards?
"Freedom" had its brief stint in human history, but in a few decades from now nobody will remember what it was. And given how parents today raise children used to permanent observation, the grownups by then will probably never have experienced freedom first and, and won't know what they are missing.
TV is preparing kids for this future. Ever seen a show called "Special Agent Oso"? They have surveillance cameras in drones that look like ladybugs watching the children.
"But I was going to Tosche Station to pick up power converters."
https://youtu.be/rpUkokRx3-k
Although six other VW Group executives have been indicted, none is in U.S. custody.
If they downloaded a crappy song, a SWAT team would have picked them up ages ago.
Here I thought Germany had it's collective head screwed on straight. Boy was I ever wrong, I guess.
Yeah, at first glance I thought "Germany is gonna wave the BAN stick around and be rid of this backdoor nonsense."
Sad how wrong we were. Unless it is some sort of reverse psychology sort of thing where they want support to ban backdoors, and this is just to wind people up to help get the support to ban it.
It's all microcontrollers these days, DIP switches mean nothing since you can't be sure the firmware code will honour the DIP switches configurations.
It will honor it when it is a power switch.
In a million years when the aliens come, they find no sign of life in the solar system, but they find a car in orbit around the fourth planet, and say "da fuck"?
an "In Soviet Russia" joke hiding in there somewhere
In Soviet Russia, vodka is great!
We already have dishwashers for the washing part, the hard part is getting the robot to collect everything, not break or spill anything, clean the big chunks off, load the dishwasher and run it. Then inspect, unload and put it away.
The good news is if you can build a robot to do that, it should be a no-brainer to get it to do laundry and garbage duties as well. Probably get it to cook too.
You don't have to be religious to understand that abortion is murder.
So can they do the free shipping thing too? Amazon can chuck a few flyers in the box with your stuff.
You are holding it wrong.
Which of these new standards turns off Telemetry? Without that, Windows 10 can never be secure.
You appear to not understand. They are talking about secure from the user. Is it simple to replace the OS, or is Windows secure?
The JEWlery is somewhat of an asset that can be resold in ten years. (Sorry, being slashdot I couldn't resist.)
Not a good investment either. Diamonds in particular have very poor resale value. They aren't particularly rare. https://www.theatlantic.com/ma...
A million hours is around 114 years. The warranty should be at least 100 years.
I had a drive with a MTBF of 65 years, with a three year warranty. It failed at three years three months.
Obviously the warranty length is a much better indicator of the manufacturer's confidence in their product.
About using balloons: If that was a feasible way to get payloads into an orbit (because that's what you have to do if you want to return whatever went down to the surface), don't you think that we might be already doing something like this here on earth? One of the key problems of spaceflight is that rocket engines behave vastly differently at sea level than they do in near vacuum and that we waste nearly all the fuel just to get out of the denser parts of our atmosphere, so if this could work in any way we'd probably already be doing it.
Sorry, I'm not sold. I've read it and they make some interesting claims, but so far it fails to convince.
The atmosphere on Venus is significantly more dense than on Earth.
The post made some good points right up until the bleating about the notch.
Embrace the notch. The notch is courageous. All bow to the notch.
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Maybe in USA. Everyone else in the world can watch it via Netflix - it's streaming, not free-to-air, so it has to be downloaded to be watched.
Everyone else does not include Canadians. Not on my Netflix. Apparently Bell has exclusive streaming rights here.