This is all well and good, but don't forget the application here: an artificial pelvis. It doesn't have to be super-strong, it only has to be as strong as something made out of living cells and a bunch of calcium. An artificial titanium pelvis taking up the exact same volume as a natural one should easily be stronger, no matter what kind of process is used to make it. It's not like our human bones have strength-to-weight ratios challenging forged titanium.
You sound totally paranoid. If you want to be quite reasonably secure and have WiFi, all you have to do is make sure you're using WPA2 encryption. Better yet, make sure you're using an alternative firmware like OpenWRT or DD-WRT, and keep WPS and uPnP off no matter what you use.
I don't think I've even heard of someone getting their WiFi hacked when WPA or WPA2 was being used; people only get their home WiFi "hacked" when they either use no security whatsoever, or WEP (WEP is trivial to hack). And even then, people only "hack" them so they can get free internet access, or maybe send funny stuff to your WiFi printer, not so they can search through all your files. Think about it: the only way to hack WiFi is to be physically on-site. How many people are going to drive around from neighborhood to neighborhood looking for WiFi networks to hack from their van, so that they can then try to hack into your computer from there (several orders of magnitude more difficult a task)? No one is going to go to all that effort so they can look at your pr0n collection. The really serious hackers are doing it from eastern Europe and Russia, and they come in through your regular internet connection; WiFi is irrelevant here. And the information they're after is likely your banking information, and since it's impossible to access your bank's online services from an old laptop that isn't connected to the internet, that isn't helping you either.
The blame for this should be laid squarely at the feet of the router manufacturers.
Ok, what good is that going to do? So a bunch of people get their home routers hacked, and you point the finger at the router mfgrs. Why should they care? What are you going to do about it? Declare that you're not going to buy from them any more? Haha, like they care; their customer base isn't Slashdot users, it's regular Joe Schmoes who don't read Slashdot or tech news, and just buy whatever the Best Buy salesman or Comcast representative tells them to buy. Moreover, Joe Sixpacks have a long history of never blaming mfgrs for security problems, and instead laying the blame squarely at the feet of "the hackers", as if that's going to do any good.
IMHO, here's what Linksys/Cisco/Netgear/etc/etc/etc/ should do, at the very least:
Why should they? What are you going to do if they don't? Give them a bad reputation? They already have a lousy reputation among Slashdot-folk, and it isn't hurting them any.
1. Be open and forthcoming about bugs found in their router software
Why? This will just make their products look bad to the Joe Sixpacks. Better to keep it quiet.
2. By default, routers should ship with automatic firmware updates enabled.
I'm not sure why they don't do this already, but it's probably because there's a chance something can go wrong with a firmware update, resulting in a bricked device; better to just ignore the problem and let the device run with an old, known-good firmware, because then Joe Sixpack will see that it's working and not blame the mfgr.
If I'm at BestBuy/WalMart/etc. and see one router boldly telling me "We care about your security! To protect you and your data, this router will check weekly with $manufacturer and update itself to give you the most secure Internet experience possible." And it's sitting next to another router that says no such thing, I'd buy the one that will keep me safe.
This is a pretty good point, and again I'm not sure why they don't do it already. I think someone else in this discussion said that Apple's routers actually do this.
They distribute them solely as JPGs; if they some massive drive crash, why on earth would they want to regenerate all that data from the lossless originals, rather than just getting a copy of the website back online immediately using the data they normally distribute?
The "compelling feature" is that they're bound and determined to do a me-too to the iPhone and Android, and to dominate the market just like they did with Xbox against Sony and Nintendo. Technical merits are irrelevant.
7 miles might not have helped there; Katrina devastated far more than 7 miles of coastline. If your business/datacenter and your backup site are both on the coast, 7 miles apart, they'll both be toast when a hurricane hits. You have to go inland, and hopefully more than 7 miles. Of course, the problem in places like the Gulf Coast is that all the development is right on the coast (or within a few miles), and immediately inland (past the few miles of development) it's all rural. So if you want to store your backup tapes someplace inland 15 miles, you'll be putting them in someone's barn.
Um, unless I'm missing something, a tape is only going to be able to store its native capacity, and that's it. It's not like they're accidentally going to put twice as much footage in there on some of them. If the native capacity is 800GB, that's it.
If you're storing up to 5TB on a tape, that surely must be because the you're availing yourself of the compression feature (rather than storing pre-compressed data), and some of your data is highly compressible. This isn't usual; different data is differently compressible. If you're trying to store h.264 movies or JPEGs on a tape, you're not going to get very good compression, and probably none at all in fact. If you're storing text files, you should be able to get excellent compression.
(and its pretty sad when Fox has better Scif-Fi on than the Sy-Fy channel)
Expect the show to be cancelled early. This is typical of Fox: they cancelled Firefly after 14 episodes, and Terra Nova after 1 season (with a cliffhanger).
Try Buffalo; their routers come standard with DD-WRT. Or, look at the DD-WRT and OpenWRT device databases and pick a well-supported device to run one of those firmwares on.
If they are strongly considering abandoning Windows Phone,
Where'd you get that idea? Not that I'd miss it or anything, but that's the first I've heard of that, and that's not typical of MS at all. Their typical MO is to continually throw money at a project until they dominate the market. Just look at Xbox for an example. It's Google that gives up on stuff after a couple of years if it isn't completely dominating the market.
I'm not sure who designed either system, but they should be kicked out of user design and forced to go back to school, perhaps in something useful like sales.
I completely disagree. Whoever designed Metro should be forced to clean toilets at a truck stop for a living.
Exactly. "pwnies" even says in his posting on Reddit how MS looked at adding multiple desktops to Windows, but in testing they found out that casual users were confused by them. Because of this, they took them out.
I use multiple desktops on my two computers that run KDE, and of course I use the feature a lot. My wife uses KDE on her laptop too, and she's definitely NOT a power user. Does she get confused by multiple desktops? Nope. It's really simple: I never enabled that feature for her like I did on my computers.
Apparently MS thinks that their "power users" are just too stupid to go into Control Panel and enable something.
And that's on the island of Ireland, dumbass. Britain is not a country, it's an island, which happens to be a different island. I never said it was filmed in the UK, I said it wasn't filmed in Britain. Moron.
Regardless, the other issue is that now you have a lot more high energy UV to deal with too.
I wonder if there's a way to capture that high-energy UV and convert it to electricity. On Earth, it's probably not worth bothering with, but on the Moon with no atmosphere, there's lots of it as you note. Maybe a different PV design can be used which is able to capture some of the energy in those wavelengths.
I'm not a beer drinker at all, but from I hear, US craft beers are some of the best in the world. The mass-market stuff of course is widely reviled as shit.
Huh? You're pointing to Game of Thrones as some sort of way to generate interest in reuniting Britain and the US? You've got to be kidding. GoT isn't even filmed in Britain, it's filmed in Ireland (and Iceland, and Malta). Moreover, the whole society of Westeros is portrayed is horribly flawed, as all the humans are busy destroying themselves while the undead from the North invade. (Esteros isn't much better; one city is built on slavery (now destroyed), another is built on unrestrained capitalism (now looted), and the Dothraki are just a bunch of savages.) Honestly, I don't see any real parallels between GoT and real life, unless maybe the White Walkers are a metaphor for global climate change. Personally, I'm rooting for the White Walkers. The humans are just too stupid.
As for the feudal England fantasy, that Jane Austen crap is just that; only a small subset of women like that garbage.
Maybe, but there's a lot more to a car than the electronics. A mobile phone or laptop or tablet has nothing but electronics (unless you count the battery or the hard drives (laptop only)). Cars have a big electric motor which needs its own control system and cooling system, wheels, hydraulic brakes, suspension, steering, air conditioning, a chassis designed to be survivable in crashes, airbags, seats, and lots of other mechanical bits and pieces. Yes, there's a lot of electronics in a modern car, but there's lots of mechanical stuff too, and that stuff is all life-critical. This isn't the case in a tablet computer. The electronics in a car have to work in all weather conditions, at all times, with no rebooting. If your tablet craps out and has to be rebooted, it's not a big deal. Trusting a trendy, form-over-function consumer software company to make mission-critical systems and software and worse yet survivable chassis structures is a disaster waiting to happen.
An pray tell, where can I get one of these robotic tunnel borers on the moon? You're talking about getting a HUGE piece of equipment to the moon which has to operate remotely,
Hey, I never said it'd be cheap, just that the technology mostly exists. We have excavating machines, we have the technology to operate things remotely....
Besides, we don't necessarily need to operate all this stuff remotely. We should be able to set up a very small habitat for a small crew to man, and have them operate the equipment on-site until they can build bigger and better more-permanent habitats.
And it isn't just the machine to do the tunnel boring, you need structural materials to support the excavation and all the other building materials for the base.
A better plan is for us to figure out how to jump-start mining, refining, and manufacturing operations on-site, so we don't need to transport all this stuff from the Earth.
So we're going to rely on hypothetical tunnels to shield us from radiation? Great plan...
Along with mining and manufacturing on the Moon, this too requires something called "exploration": we need to actually send probes, or maybe more manned missions, to the Moon to learn more about it to figure out what can and can't be done there, and how. We're not going to find out whether these hypothetical tunnels exist or not by sitting on our asses here. At least the Chinese are putting an effort in to explore the Moon further; we certainly aren't. I'm not advocating sending a bunch of TBMs to the Moon next week, I'm just saying most of the tech is already there, it just needs to be adapted some, and we need to figure out how to build it using materials on the Moon.
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This is all well and good, but don't forget the application here: an artificial pelvis. It doesn't have to be super-strong, it only has to be as strong as something made out of living cells and a bunch of calcium. An artificial titanium pelvis taking up the exact same volume as a natural one should easily be stronger, no matter what kind of process is used to make it. It's not like our human bones have strength-to-weight ratios challenging forged titanium.
This is titanium, not a ferrous metal. It can't be magnetized.
You sound totally paranoid. If you want to be quite reasonably secure and have WiFi, all you have to do is make sure you're using WPA2 encryption. Better yet, make sure you're using an alternative firmware like OpenWRT or DD-WRT, and keep WPS and uPnP off no matter what you use.
I don't think I've even heard of someone getting their WiFi hacked when WPA or WPA2 was being used; people only get their home WiFi "hacked" when they either use no security whatsoever, or WEP (WEP is trivial to hack). And even then, people only "hack" them so they can get free internet access, or maybe send funny stuff to your WiFi printer, not so they can search through all your files. Think about it: the only way to hack WiFi is to be physically on-site. How many people are going to drive around from neighborhood to neighborhood looking for WiFi networks to hack from their van, so that they can then try to hack into your computer from there (several orders of magnitude more difficult a task)? No one is going to go to all that effort so they can look at your pr0n collection. The really serious hackers are doing it from eastern Europe and Russia, and they come in through your regular internet connection; WiFi is irrelevant here. And the information they're after is likely your banking information, and since it's impossible to access your bank's online services from an old laptop that isn't connected to the internet, that isn't helping you either.
The blame for this should be laid squarely at the feet of the router manufacturers.
Ok, what good is that going to do? So a bunch of people get their home routers hacked, and you point the finger at the router mfgrs. Why should they care? What are you going to do about it? Declare that you're not going to buy from them any more? Haha, like they care; their customer base isn't Slashdot users, it's regular Joe Schmoes who don't read Slashdot or tech news, and just buy whatever the Best Buy salesman or Comcast representative tells them to buy. Moreover, Joe Sixpacks have a long history of never blaming mfgrs for security problems, and instead laying the blame squarely at the feet of "the hackers", as if that's going to do any good.
IMHO, here's what Linksys/Cisco/Netgear/etc/etc/etc/ should do, at the very least:
Why should they? What are you going to do if they don't? Give them a bad reputation? They already have a lousy reputation among Slashdot-folk, and it isn't hurting them any.
1. Be open and forthcoming about bugs found in their router software
Why? This will just make their products look bad to the Joe Sixpacks. Better to keep it quiet.
2. By default, routers should ship with automatic firmware updates enabled.
I'm not sure why they don't do this already, but it's probably because there's a chance something can go wrong with a firmware update, resulting in a bricked device; better to just ignore the problem and let the device run with an old, known-good firmware, because then Joe Sixpack will see that it's working and not blame the mfgr.
If I'm at BestBuy/WalMart/etc. and see one router boldly telling me "We care about your security! To protect you and your data, this router will check weekly with $manufacturer and update itself to give you the most secure Internet experience possible." And it's sitting next to another router that says no such thing, I'd buy the one that will keep me safe.
This is a pretty good point, and again I'm not sure why they don't do it already. I think someone else in this discussion said that Apple's routers actually do this.
They distribute them solely as JPGs; if they some massive drive crash, why on earth would they want to regenerate all that data from the lossless originals, rather than just getting a copy of the website back online immediately using the data they normally distribute?
I think you missed my second paragraph.
The "compelling feature" is that they're bound and determined to do a me-too to the iPhone and Android, and to dominate the market just like they did with Xbox against Sony and Nintendo. Technical merits are irrelevant.
Anyone whose business depends on images is almost certainly not backing up lossily compressed data. PNG, maybe.
Porn sites don't distribute their images in PNG form.
Luckily JPEGs dont tend to get backed up.
I guess that depends on what kind of business you're running....
7 miles might not have helped there; Katrina devastated far more than 7 miles of coastline. If your business/datacenter and your backup site are both on the coast, 7 miles apart, they'll both be toast when a hurricane hits. You have to go inland, and hopefully more than 7 miles. Of course, the problem in places like the Gulf Coast is that all the development is right on the coast (or within a few miles), and immediately inland (past the few miles of development) it's all rural. So if you want to store your backup tapes someplace inland 15 miles, you'll be putting them in someone's barn.
Um, unless I'm missing something, a tape is only going to be able to store its native capacity, and that's it. It's not like they're accidentally going to put twice as much footage in there on some of them. If the native capacity is 800GB, that's it.
If you're storing up to 5TB on a tape, that surely must be because the you're availing yourself of the compression feature (rather than storing pre-compressed data), and some of your data is highly compressible. This isn't usual; different data is differently compressible. If you're trying to store h.264 movies or JPEGs on a tape, you're not going to get very good compression, and probably none at all in fact. If you're storing text files, you should be able to get excellent compression.
(and its pretty sad when Fox has better Scif-Fi on than the Sy-Fy channel)
Expect the show to be cancelled early. This is typical of Fox: they cancelled Firefly after 14 episodes, and Terra Nova after 1 season (with a cliffhanger).
Don't forget horrifically overpriced cables.
Try Buffalo; their routers come standard with DD-WRT. Or, look at the DD-WRT and OpenWRT device databases and pick a well-supported device to run one of those firmwares on.
If they are strongly considering abandoning Windows Phone,
Where'd you get that idea? Not that I'd miss it or anything, but that's the first I've heard of that, and that's not typical of MS at all. Their typical MO is to continually throw money at a project until they dominate the market. Just look at Xbox for an example. It's Google that gives up on stuff after a couple of years if it isn't completely dominating the market.
I'm not sure who designed either system, but they should be kicked out of user design and forced to go back to school, perhaps in something useful like sales.
I completely disagree. Whoever designed Metro should be forced to clean toilets at a truck stop for a living.
Exactly. "pwnies" even says in his posting on Reddit how MS looked at adding multiple desktops to Windows, but in testing they found out that casual users were confused by them. Because of this, they took them out.
I use multiple desktops on my two computers that run KDE, and of course I use the feature a lot. My wife uses KDE on her laptop too, and she's definitely NOT a power user. Does she get confused by multiple desktops? Nope. It's really simple: I never enabled that feature for her like I did on my computers.
Apparently MS thinks that their "power users" are just too stupid to go into Control Panel and enable something.
And that's on the island of Ireland, dumbass. Britain is not a country, it's an island, which happens to be a different island. I never said it was filmed in the UK, I said it wasn't filmed in Britain. Moron.
Regardless, the other issue is that now you have a lot more high energy UV to deal with too.
I wonder if there's a way to capture that high-energy UV and convert it to electricity. On Earth, it's probably not worth bothering with, but on the Moon with no atmosphere, there's lots of it as you note. Maybe a different PV design can be used which is able to capture some of the energy in those wavelengths.
Baseball is played on foot too, and no one thinks about calling that "football".
I'm not a beer drinker at all, but from I hear, US craft beers are some of the best in the world. The mass-market stuff of course is widely reviled as shit.
Don't worry, it's a self-correcting problem.
Huh? You're pointing to Game of Thrones as some sort of way to generate interest in reuniting Britain and the US? You've got to be kidding. GoT isn't even filmed in Britain, it's filmed in Ireland (and Iceland, and Malta). Moreover, the whole society of Westeros is portrayed is horribly flawed, as all the humans are busy destroying themselves while the undead from the North invade. (Esteros isn't much better; one city is built on slavery (now destroyed), another is built on unrestrained capitalism (now looted), and the Dothraki are just a bunch of savages.) Honestly, I don't see any real parallels between GoT and real life, unless maybe the White Walkers are a metaphor for global climate change. Personally, I'm rooting for the White Walkers. The humans are just too stupid.
As for the feudal England fantasy, that Jane Austen crap is just that; only a small subset of women like that garbage.
Maybe, but there's a lot more to a car than the electronics. A mobile phone or laptop or tablet has nothing but electronics (unless you count the battery or the hard drives (laptop only)). Cars have a big electric motor which needs its own control system and cooling system, wheels, hydraulic brakes, suspension, steering, air conditioning, a chassis designed to be survivable in crashes, airbags, seats, and lots of other mechanical bits and pieces. Yes, there's a lot of electronics in a modern car, but there's lots of mechanical stuff too, and that stuff is all life-critical. This isn't the case in a tablet computer. The electronics in a car have to work in all weather conditions, at all times, with no rebooting. If your tablet craps out and has to be rebooted, it's not a big deal. Trusting a trendy, form-over-function consumer software company to make mission-critical systems and software and worse yet survivable chassis structures is a disaster waiting to happen.
An pray tell, where can I get one of these robotic tunnel borers on the moon? You're talking about getting a HUGE piece of equipment to the moon which has to operate remotely,
Hey, I never said it'd be cheap, just that the technology mostly exists. We have excavating machines, we have the technology to operate things remotely....
Besides, we don't necessarily need to operate all this stuff remotely. We should be able to set up a very small habitat for a small crew to man, and have them operate the equipment on-site until they can build bigger and better more-permanent habitats.
And it isn't just the machine to do the tunnel boring, you need structural materials to support the excavation and all the other building materials for the base.
A better plan is for us to figure out how to jump-start mining, refining, and manufacturing operations on-site, so we don't need to transport all this stuff from the Earth.
So we're going to rely on hypothetical tunnels to shield us from radiation? Great plan...
Along with mining and manufacturing on the Moon, this too requires something called "exploration": we need to actually send probes, or maybe more manned missions, to the Moon to learn more about it to figure out what can and can't be done there, and how. We're not going to find out whether these hypothetical tunnels exist or not by sitting on our asses here. At least the Chinese are putting an effort in to explore the Moon further; we certainly aren't. I'm not advocating sending a bunch of TBMs to the Moon next week, I'm just saying most of the tech is already there, it just needs to be adapted some, and we need to figure out how to build it using materials on the Moon.