1. Bleed. Lots of bleed. 2. Cannot calibrate properly because different phone screens have different intensities and spectra. Even within the same model of phone. 3. Occupies your phone. 4. What advantage does this have over a cheap LCD panel anyway? 5. Resin can offer a superior print quality, if you weren't dealing with photons escaping in the wrong direction, but it's also expensive and hard to get. 6. And offers no consistency in quality control, so good luck using cheap stuff off ebay. 7. Oh, and it has a shelf life. 8. Did they mention it's also moderately toxic when liquid? 9. And that you have to clean those printers out if you want to leave them unused for a while to keep the resin from setting inside them? 10. That's the smallest build area of any printer I've ever seen.
It's a gimmick. I hope that one day a cheaper, more practical resin printer will be introduced for the masses - but this is not that printer. It is certainly an interesting approach though, using an LCD rather than the usual elaborate and expensive multi-laser setup. It just needs to be done in a form that isn't quite so ridiculously cheap - corners are cut getting a design that cheap to manufacture that you can't even afford an LCD panel, and have to instead pretend the omission of a vital component is somehow a feature.
That's not a mesh network. A mesh network would be if the TV, lacking an internet connection, instead connected to your neighbour's TVs, and via them to the next TV along, until it finds the poor sod who did connect their TV to the internet and can pass the messages finally back to the server.
I can think of far better uses for a hacked coffee maker. Top of the list is as a tool for proxying further attacks through, followed by DDoS node, followed by a good place to set up a server holding some illegal stuff so I can post the link in public forum. The coffee side has little practical use - but there's a computer in there that can be abused. Or I could just be annoying and make it play The Coffee Song while brewing.
"Ever since that state approved the Anti-Obscenity Enforcement Act in 1998, which prohibited the sale of “any device designed or marketed as useful for the stimulation of human genital organs,” humorists have mocked the statute while many Alabamans with common sense have tried to downplay its significance."... "Alabamans who sell sex toys — even inside so-called “adult oriented” businesses — face up to a year in prison and a $10,000 fine. Repeat offenders risk a ten year prison sentence. "
I used to be right about Texas. Since the time I read of it, their dildo-ban law has been overturned in court. Alabama's still stands. The law exists, it just isn't enforced.
Must vary by region. I'm in what you might call a 'fairly liberal' country and the stigma is there, but not cripplingly so. But in some places... well, in Texas and Alabama the sale or possession with intent to sell of any sex toy is actually a criminal offence and you can be sent to jail for a period of some years. Though that law is seldom enforced.
The TV series Humans used this idea. Domestic robots have the physical capability of performing some sexual functions - exactly how far it goes isn't stated clearly - but this functionality is not loaded as software by default. It requires opening an envelope bearing an additional EULA and reading the robot a license key to enable that functionality.
Humans being a scifi-drama, this leads to some hasty family intrigue when the wife finds the opened envelops in a rubbish bin and isn't sure if it was her husband that opened it, or her son. The possibility of it being the daughter never even occurred.
There are some niches where a humanoid form brings an advantage. Face excepted, it's a good shape in any building - stairs, lifts, doors, hallways etc are all designed for human occupation, so a robot with the same shape would be able to get around easily without needing to replace all the stairs with dalek-friendly ramps.
The problem with sex bots, aside from cost, is that it'd be very hard to conceal from prying visitors. There's a social stigma today to just owning sex toys, and the amount of stigma depends upon the cost and complexity of the toy.
If the majority of people are religious, and you are not, this is a potential sign that you are in error. This potential error must be investigated. The appropriate measure is to study religion until you either determine the majority view is correct, or are able to both defend your lack of religion and explain what factors cause the majority to be in error.
The majority are usually right. Not always, but usually. So if you have any views that disagree with the majority, you really need to give those views some in-depth examination and make sure you are able to properly justify not just why you hold them, but why the majority do not.
Or the part where he said that not only should America torture suspected terrorists for information, America should torture them regardless because it acts as a deterrent.
If we're picking the most extreme Trump moments, there's plenty of choice. Though I think the worst part is that the Trump insanity is making the other Republican candidates look like moderates - without Trump beside them it would be quite clear that the whole party has been getting more extreme too.
"The only way they're going to HURT him now is if you're able to hack the voting machines."
Not quite. Trump has a lot of business and political dealings, and every communications channel is now a target - there's a chance someone might uncover real dirt in one of them. Documents that prove activity so seedy or outright illegal that it could be used against him. Perhaps somewhere there is a record of him actually giving the order to sabotage a rival event, or bribe an official, or an honest assessment of what he thinks of his followers.
They did seriously hurt the church of scientology. The church easily repaired the damage, but it left their reputation in ruins - not a shred of respect left for them, a laughing-stock. Their recruitment was hurt so badly they had to refocus expansion into the developing world, where people hadn't yet heard of their cultish ways.
My favourite trump moments: - Announcing that not only will he build a wall along the border, but he'll make Mexico pay for it. - -Suggesting doing so by seizing assets from Mexican companies in the US. -- Suggesting doing so by declaring war upon Mexico and just invading. - Performing a mocking caricature of a reporter's disability. -- Outright denying he ever did any such thing, even though it was caught on video, recorded, broadcast on national TV and uploaded to youtube. - Proposing that all Muslims should be forbidden from entering the country, regardless of citizenship, with the sole exception of those serving in the military.
There is no such thing as a law-abiding citizen. Everyone has committed criminal acts, without exception. The only distinction is between those who have been caught and those that law enforcement does not consider sufficiently serious to pursue.
You'd need to get some statistics to really conclude much though. Not just the number of burglars killed, but also the number shot due to misunderstandings (Returning late from a party and forgot the key), number due to gun-related accidents (If you keep a gun you can grab at a moment's notice, so can your young child - a gun stored unloaded in a gun safe is useless when you need one in your hand right now), number of homeowners killed in the attempt to defend themselves (Crook had a gun, or grabbed it while the homeowner hesitated) and, harder to measure, an estimate of how many criminals would turn and flee when discovered even by an unarmed homeowner.
The pro-gun people reject the background check idea for the same reason that pro-choicers are required to oppose any form of regulation of abortion: Once a regulation exists it can be easily abused. The government could, for example, require all background checks be performed by an dedicated office in the FBI - with a staff of two, one of them part time, and a budget just large enough to cover salary. That way the check becomes a de facto prohibition as the backlog of applications grows from months to years.
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Far, far too much overhead.
I used mine just yesterday to print a bracket for my shower screen.
1. Bleed. Lots of bleed.
2. Cannot calibrate properly because different phone screens have different intensities and spectra. Even within the same model of phone.
3. Occupies your phone.
4. What advantage does this have over a cheap LCD panel anyway?
5. Resin can offer a superior print quality, if you weren't dealing with photons escaping in the wrong direction, but it's also expensive and hard to get.
6. And offers no consistency in quality control, so good luck using cheap stuff off ebay.
7. Oh, and it has a shelf life.
8. Did they mention it's also moderately toxic when liquid?
9. And that you have to clean those printers out if you want to leave them unused for a while to keep the resin from setting inside them?
10. That's the smallest build area of any printer I've ever seen.
It's a gimmick. I hope that one day a cheaper, more practical resin printer will be introduced for the masses - but this is not that printer. It is certainly an interesting approach though, using an LCD rather than the usual elaborate and expensive multi-laser setup. It just needs to be done in a form that isn't quite so ridiculously cheap - corners are cut getting a design that cheap to manufacture that you can't even afford an LCD panel, and have to instead pretend the omission of a vital component is somehow a feature.
What's the best way to covertly shift gigabytes of data via Facebook?
Or AVIs in MP3s, back when the only file-sharing network was Napster.
"They are trying to create mesh networks."
That's not a mesh network. A mesh network would be if the TV, lacking an internet connection, instead connected to your neighbour's TVs, and via them to the next TV along, until it finds the poor sod who did connect their TV to the internet and can pass the messages finally back to the server.
I can think of far better uses for a hacked coffee maker. Top of the list is as a tool for proxying further attacks through, followed by DDoS node, followed by a good place to set up a server holding some illegal stuff so I can post the link in public forum. The coffee side has little practical use - but there's a computer in there that can be abused. Or I could just be annoying and make it play The Coffee Song while brewing.
Here's a reliable source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
"Ever since that state approved the Anti-Obscenity Enforcement Act in 1998, which prohibited the sale of “any device designed or marketed as useful for the stimulation of human genital organs,” humorists have mocked the statute while many Alabamans with common sense have tried to downplay its significance." ...
"Alabamans who sell sex toys — even inside so-called “adult oriented” businesses — face up to a year in prison and a $10,000 fine. Repeat offenders risk a ten year prison sentence. "
I used to be right about Texas. Since the time I read of it, their dildo-ban law has been overturned in court. Alabama's still stands. The law exists, it just isn't enforced.
Must vary by region. I'm in what you might call a 'fairly liberal' country and the stigma is there, but not cripplingly so. But in some places... well, in Texas and Alabama the sale or possession with intent to sell of any sex toy is actually a criminal offence and you can be sent to jail for a period of some years. Though that law is seldom enforced.
You mean a 'groinal attachment?'
The TV series Humans used this idea. Domestic robots have the physical capability of performing some sexual functions - exactly how far it goes isn't stated clearly - but this functionality is not loaded as software by default. It requires opening an envelope bearing an additional EULA and reading the robot a license key to enable that functionality.
Humans being a scifi-drama, this leads to some hasty family intrigue when the wife finds the opened envelops in a rubbish bin and isn't sure if it was her husband that opened it, or her son. The possibility of it being the daughter never even occurred.
There are some niches where a humanoid form brings an advantage. Face excepted, it's a good shape in any building - stairs, lifts, doors, hallways etc are all designed for human occupation, so a robot with the same shape would be able to get around easily without needing to replace all the stairs with dalek-friendly ramps.
The problem with sex bots, aside from cost, is that it'd be very hard to conceal from prying visitors. There's a social stigma today to just owning sex toys, and the amount of stigma depends upon the cost and complexity of the toy.
You'll be able to buy mod kits for that.
If the majority of people are religious, and you are not, this is a potential sign that you are in error. This potential error must be investigated. The appropriate measure is to study religion until you either determine the majority view is correct, or are able to both defend your lack of religion and explain what factors cause the majority to be in error.
The majority are usually right. Not always, but usually. So if you have any views that disagree with the majority, you really need to give those views some in-depth examination and make sure you are able to properly justify not just why you hold them, but why the majority do not.
Or the part where he said that not only should America torture suspected terrorists for information, America should torture them regardless because it acts as a deterrent.
If we're picking the most extreme Trump moments, there's plenty of choice. Though I think the worst part is that the Trump insanity is making the other Republican candidates look like moderates - without Trump beside them it would be quite clear that the whole party has been getting more extreme too.
Those are for UK cars. They are, on average, considerably smaller than those in the US.
"The only way they're going to HURT him now is if you're able to hack the voting machines."
Not quite. Trump has a lot of business and political dealings, and every communications channel is now a target - there's a chance someone might uncover real dirt in one of them. Documents that prove activity so seedy or outright illegal that it could be used against him. Perhaps somewhere there is a record of him actually giving the order to sabotage a rival event, or bribe an official, or an honest assessment of what he thinks of his followers.
"I bet these "protesters" would be surprised to learn that they are using tried and trusted methods of the Nazis. "
On the other hand, it did work.
They did seriously hurt the church of scientology. The church easily repaired the damage, but it left their reputation in ruins - not a shred of respect left for them, a laughing-stock. Their recruitment was hurt so badly they had to refocus expansion into the developing world, where people hadn't yet heard of their cultish ways.
That was many years ago, though.
My favourite trump moments:
- Announcing that not only will he build a wall along the border, but he'll make Mexico pay for it.
- -Suggesting doing so by seizing assets from Mexican companies in the US.
-- Suggesting doing so by declaring war upon Mexico and just invading.
- Performing a mocking caricature of a reporter's disability.
-- Outright denying he ever did any such thing, even though it was caught on video, recorded, broadcast on national TV and uploaded to youtube.
- Proposing that all Muslims should be forbidden from entering the country, regardless of citizenship, with the sole exception of those serving in the military.
There is no such thing as a law-abiding citizen. Everyone has committed criminal acts, without exception. The only distinction is between those who have been caught and those that law enforcement does not consider sufficiently serious to pursue.
You'd need to get some statistics to really conclude much though. Not just the number of burglars killed, but also the number shot due to misunderstandings (Returning late from a party and forgot the key), number due to gun-related accidents (If you keep a gun you can grab at a moment's notice, so can your young child - a gun stored unloaded in a gun safe is useless when you need one in your hand right now), number of homeowners killed in the attempt to defend themselves (Crook had a gun, or grabbed it while the homeowner hesitated) and, harder to measure, an estimate of how many criminals would turn and flee when discovered even by an unarmed homeowner.
The pro-gun people reject the background check idea for the same reason that pro-choicers are required to oppose any form of regulation of abortion: Once a regulation exists it can be easily abused. The government could, for example, require all background checks be performed by an dedicated office in the FBI - with a staff of two, one of them part time, and a budget just large enough to cover salary. That way the check becomes a de facto prohibition as the backlog of applications grows from months to years.