I've a friend who's tried two kits, and is so totally fed up with them being pieces of finicky (@#%$^&!) garbage that he's junked them and hit the kickstarter for https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tiko3d/tiko-the-unibody-3d-printer/updates I hope it lives up to his expectations. Also, we have a gamer in our tabletop group who'd really love a set of braille dice as she's totally blind, just ask her guide dog, so we have ulterior motives for that one to work well.;)
There are places where you can get a lot of 3d printer files that people have created for various things. Some of these are free, others want you to pay for them, it all depends. I'll let you locate them, but a word of warning, since the article seems to say that the mattel 3d printer uses it's proprietary software, it probably won't be any use to find those files in the first place.
I've done tech support for certain security products, and your probably right on the money there. You'd be amazed how many people are absolutely positive that you have a 'secret' backdoor to get past your security program. You wouldn't believe some of the arguments I've been subjected too over that. People just believe hollywood too much over reason. Any security program that has a backdoor access is NOT SECURE ! If the users neglected to make their emergency unlock disk, or lost it, they were totally screwed. Time to nuke & pave. As it happens, I don't support or have an iphone, so I have no idea what apple does, but I find it very plausible that there is absolutely nothing they can do, especially if they got pissed at their treatment early and removed any method they previously had to unlock it, even if it was for the cops when they have a proper warrant for the information. In which case, don't forget your key or it's toast.
It's the US. We're being forced to join the rest of the world in metrics, and so many of us apparently don't want to, but it's insidious and is creeping in, and will continue to do so unless the xenophobic build a giant dome over the country. We'll eventually join the metric standard, but it may take a few centuries more.
Don't forget that the plasma in a Tokamac touching the containment vessel walls doesn't just cool the plasma, it also damages the reactor which in turn also reduces stability and efficiency, not to mention causing the need for replacements which are expensive and time consuming.
When you consider the amount of already proven scientific fraud that has come out of that country and the leaderships apparent desire to one-up the other countries so badly it turns a blind eye to it on a regular basis, yeah, it's possible it's real, but don't bet any money on it until it's been properly verified by independent outside groups.
First, let's drop the hype, this idea is ancient for 'new ideas', it was published in an issue of Popular Mechanics older than Elon Musk (40s era issue I believe) . Now here's a huge issue I haven't seen anyone talking about that gets progressively worse as the track/tube length increases, subsidence and ground movement. Yes, that's right, all those super tight tolerances needed to keep it air tight and within safe turning range of a high speed capsule are at risk. No matter how much we like to pretend, the earth isn't 'rock solid steady'. If you don't know what I'm talking about, look up soil subsidence, faults, and even earth tide. Earth tide is an interesting one and it can be around half a meter, depending on location and conditions, but it effects pretty much the entire planet.
The point is, there are serious issues about trying to keep an airtight low pressure tube of extraordinary length intact and functionally safe, especially when you're going to be shooting giant passenger carrying bullets down it. That's one target you better not miss.
Yes, there are probably a ton of other issues I've never thought of, but I'm not an engineer and it's not my job to be intimately familiar with variant thermal expansion rates or whatever else might go wrong with this concept. I still think it makes cool mad science fiction, but I don't see it being a rational expenditure of resources and effort at this time. (By the way, how much material would such a full sized tube use up, and whats the current national production of said materials?)
From what I've seen, even China is getting sick of North Korean antics and have started applying political pressure behind the scenes for them to chill out. Unfortunately, it seems as though NK is ignoring it and going rogue, which is a really bad idea as it's really only the influence that China wields that keeps them from getting steamrolled by any of several other countries or groups.
He keeps recycling old ideas, and the media keeps claiming he's inventing something new. (They should really do at least 3 minutes of research before jumping to such false conclusions.) It seems his real talent is to convince people to go back to old ideas that didn't take off before. That's neither good nor bad, but stop overhyping them.
Maybe because they don't want to encourage such behavior in the first place. Or maybe that if they can get those people into the habit of not doing that to a machine, something rather inappropriate and stupid in the first place, maybe they'll get in the habit and refrain from such things with humans.
Telling the employees to show up monday, but don't expect to get paid is the same as telling them that they're fired, but you're too much of a douche to admit it to them and want them to work for free while you try to find a way to activate that golden parachute for yourself.
There are exceptions to the wage laws, and interns are one of them. Volunteers for certain things are also exempt. Then there's the so called 'stoop labor', which is another exemption, and a really ugly one. And don't forget the primarily paid by tips scam that F's over waiters/waitresses and the like.
I'm going to use a car analogy here, because it's traditional, and it's become a running gag. Don't whine about the names used, at least it's recognized. Also, I'm not a car guy, so I don't care if I name the wrong parts.
Let's say you buy a Ford car. You've had a great time with that car, no problems at all. Then one day when you're getting gas, all of a sudden there's an explosion and your carburetor flies though the hood of your car and explodes a hundred feet up like fireworks! After a bit of research, you find out that Ford has started doping that gas so if it's used in a Ford car with Non-Ford Official and Authorized parts, it causes the rather spectacular event you already witnessed.
Does Ford actually have the right to do that? Even if you bought it from an Authorized Ford Dealer? You bought it new? Even if you didn't, how can they legally justify damaging YOUR property? Trust me, if cars were shutting down unexpectedly because of an intentional act of sabotage, there would be hell to pay for the saboteurs. Why does anyone think this situation should be any different?
Except it went dead because someone else intentionally sabotaged it. You do know that in most places that it is illegal to destroy or otherwise intentionally damage or render inoperable someone elses property.
Correct. The vendor has no right to mess with the users stuff, that's actually illegal in most places. They can however take the counterfeit producers to court in most cases. If it's in a country they can't, then they can take it up with the various world trade organizations. Either way, you don't F over the end consumer.
Unfortunately, these types of actions, political or not, will severely impact and otherwise influence the development, deployment, and accessibility of tech. Of course if you want to play ostrich, nobody is stopping you, but don't try to force others to play with you.
My Sony Blueray player does Netflix. It sucks though as it stutters and stops like crazy. None of my other devices on that router have any problems, only the Sony. I guess they have a buggy Netflix build, or just a crappy processor in that box. Kind of funny as my phone doesn't have much of a processor and it does just fine, and that's over the slower wireless as well.
That's one way of putting it. Of course, they kind of succeeded last time they wanted a downgrade of definitions and thus services for Americans, so they probably figure this is hat trick. Just pay off some politicians and give them a script and laugh. If you're curious, let's just say that what we call 3G and 4G in the USA isn't the same as the rest of the world.
Because it's the FCC, they are the ones that regulate and even define a lot of that stuff, so yes, they do tend to know about communication infrastructure. Don't ask them about what porn you like jerking off to, you'd probably have to talk to the NSA about that one.
Don't forget that all their advertising uses the key phrase 'up to'. That means if it's anything less than the advertised number, they don't give a shit because they never promised you'd get that number, just that you won't get more than that.
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I've a friend who's tried two kits, and is so totally fed up with them being pieces of finicky (@#%$^&!) garbage that he's junked them and hit the kickstarter for https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tiko3d/tiko-the-unibody-3d-printer/updates ;)
I hope it lives up to his expectations. Also, we have a gamer in our tabletop group who'd really love a set of braille dice as she's totally blind, just ask her guide dog, so we have ulterior motives for that one to work well.
There are places where you can get a lot of 3d printer files that people have created for various things. Some of these are free, others want you to pay for them, it all depends. I'll let you locate them, but a word of warning, since the article seems to say that the mattel 3d printer uses it's proprietary software, it probably won't be any use to find those files in the first place.
Of course there are limits to what a judge can force anyone to do, especially when they are not the party being charged with a crime.
Correct.
I've done tech support for certain security products, and your probably right on the money there. You'd be amazed how many people are absolutely positive that you have a 'secret' backdoor to get past your security program. You wouldn't believe some of the arguments I've been subjected too over that. People just believe hollywood too much over reason. Any security program that has a backdoor access is NOT SECURE ! If the users neglected to make their emergency unlock disk, or lost it, they were totally screwed. Time to nuke & pave.
As it happens, I don't support or have an iphone, so I have no idea what apple does, but I find it very plausible that there is absolutely nothing they can do, especially if they got pissed at their treatment early and removed any method they previously had to unlock it, even if it was for the cops when they have a proper warrant for the information. In which case, don't forget your key or it's toast.
It's the US. We're being forced to join the rest of the world in metrics, and so many of us apparently don't want to, but it's insidious and is creeping in, and will continue to do so unless the xenophobic build a giant dome over the country.
We'll eventually join the metric standard, but it may take a few centuries more.
Most people totally freak out when you prove that they themselves are radioactive. (Carbon 14 decay)
Don't forget that the plasma in a Tokamac touching the containment vessel walls doesn't just cool the plasma, it also damages the reactor which in turn also reduces stability and efficiency, not to mention causing the need for replacements which are expensive and time consuming.
When you consider the amount of already proven scientific fraud that has come out of that country and the leaderships apparent desire to one-up the other countries so badly it turns a blind eye to it on a regular basis, yeah, it's possible it's real, but don't bet any money on it until it's been properly verified by independent outside groups.
First, let's drop the hype, this idea is ancient for 'new ideas', it was published in an issue of Popular Mechanics older than Elon Musk (40s era issue I believe) .
Now here's a huge issue I haven't seen anyone talking about that gets progressively worse as the track/tube length increases, subsidence and ground movement.
Yes, that's right, all those super tight tolerances needed to keep it air tight and within safe turning range of a high speed capsule are at risk.
No matter how much we like to pretend, the earth isn't 'rock solid steady'.
If you don't know what I'm talking about, look up soil subsidence, faults, and even earth tide.
Earth tide is an interesting one and it can be around half a meter, depending on location and conditions, but it effects pretty much the entire planet.
The point is, there are serious issues about trying to keep an airtight low pressure tube of extraordinary length intact and functionally safe, especially when you're going to be shooting giant passenger carrying bullets down it. That's one target you better not miss.
Yes, there are probably a ton of other issues I've never thought of, but I'm not an engineer and it's not my job to be intimately familiar with variant thermal expansion rates or whatever else might go wrong with this concept. I still think it makes cool mad science fiction, but I don't see it being a rational expenditure of resources and effort at this time. (By the way, how much material would such a full sized tube use up, and whats the current national production of said materials?)
From what I've seen, even China is getting sick of North Korean antics and have started applying political pressure behind the scenes for them to chill out. Unfortunately, it seems as though NK is ignoring it and going rogue, which is a really bad idea as it's really only the influence that China wields that keeps them from getting steamrolled by any of several other countries or groups.
He keeps recycling old ideas, and the media keeps claiming he's inventing something new. (They should really do at least 3 minutes of research before jumping to such false conclusions.)
It seems his real talent is to convince people to go back to old ideas that didn't take off before. That's neither good nor bad, but stop overhyping them.
Maybe because they don't want to encourage such behavior in the first place. Or maybe that if they can get those people into the habit of not doing that to a machine, something rather inappropriate and stupid in the first place, maybe they'll get in the habit and refrain from such things with humans.
Telling the employees to show up monday, but don't expect to get paid is the same as telling them that they're fired, but you're too much of a douche to admit it to them and want them to work for free while you try to find a way to activate that golden parachute for yourself.
There are exceptions to the wage laws, and interns are one of them. Volunteers for certain things are also exempt. Then there's the so called 'stoop labor', which is another exemption, and a really ugly one. And don't forget the primarily paid by tips scam that F's over waiters/waitresses and the like.
I'm going to use a car analogy here, because it's traditional, and it's become a running gag.
Don't whine about the names used, at least it's recognized. Also, I'm not a car guy, so I don't care if I name the wrong parts.
Let's say you buy a Ford car. You've had a great time with that car, no problems at all. Then one day when you're getting gas, all of a sudden there's an explosion and your carburetor flies though the hood of your car and explodes a hundred feet up like fireworks!
After a bit of research, you find out that Ford has started doping that gas so if it's used in a Ford car with Non-Ford Official and Authorized parts, it causes the rather spectacular event you already witnessed.
Does Ford actually have the right to do that? Even if you bought it from an Authorized Ford Dealer? You bought it new?
Even if you didn't, how can they legally justify damaging YOUR property?
Trust me, if cars were shutting down unexpectedly because of an intentional act of sabotage, there would be hell to pay for the saboteurs.
Why does anyone think this situation should be any different?
Except it went dead because someone else intentionally sabotaged it. You do know that in most places that it is illegal to destroy or otherwise intentionally damage or render inoperable someone elses property.
Correct. The vendor has no right to mess with the users stuff, that's actually illegal in most places. They can however take the counterfeit producers to court in most cases. If it's in a country they can't, then they can take it up with the various world trade organizations. Either way, you don't F over the end consumer.
Is it really the first, or just the first caught?
I'm also curious on how it works and how it was hidden. I can think of a lot of possibilities, but I'm interested in what was actually done.
Unfortunately, these types of actions, political or not, will severely impact and otherwise influence the development, deployment, and accessibility of tech.
Of course if you want to play ostrich, nobody is stopping you, but don't try to force others to play with you.
My Sony Blueray player does Netflix. It sucks though as it stutters and stops like crazy. None of my other devices on that router have any problems, only the Sony. I guess they have a buggy Netflix build, or just a crappy processor in that box. Kind of funny as my phone doesn't have much of a processor and it does just fine, and that's over the slower wireless as well.
That's one way of putting it. Of course, they kind of succeeded last time they wanted a downgrade of definitions and thus services for Americans, so they probably figure this is hat trick. Just pay off some politicians and give them a script and laugh.
If you're curious, let's just say that what we call 3G and 4G in the USA isn't the same as the rest of the world.
Because it's the FCC, they are the ones that regulate and even define a lot of that stuff, so yes, they do tend to know about communication infrastructure. Don't ask them about what porn you like jerking off to, you'd probably have to talk to the NSA about that one.
Don't forget that all their advertising uses the key phrase 'up to'. That means if it's anything less than the advertised number, they don't give a shit because they never promised you'd get that number, just that you won't get more than that.
You don't have to download and test 20gb packages a couple of times a week either.