Slack began to block users in Syria, Iran, and select other embargoed countries
I hadn't really been worried about terrorism before, but now that Slack is no longer wasting the time of a whole lot of people in these countries I am deeply concerned.
If you fast speed does not make you use more total data I really question the need for the greater speed in the first place.
More speed is always nice for occasional needs though. For instance, I have downloaded a 4GB update for Xcode when on a Alaskan cruise once because I really needed to test something. I was just lucky whatever town we were near had a great LTE signal because I was able to get that done in the limited time I had to download it...
Yes there are cases where say being able to download video much faster than real time could be useful -grabbing a movie right before you board or a flight for example.
Yes, another excellent example, I've had that happen a number of times.
Most of the rest of the time I might be able to live with throated speeds, as someone else said the real advantage you'd be paying for is not as much greater bandwidth as it would be better latency. That would been more useful over time.
I'm not getting on 5G anytime soon though, will see how it plays out in reality.
I just don't see much to gain from greater speed without greater caps.
Even with diminishing returns I think a lot of people will see some value in it for improving what they do already, which is why I don't think greater caps are totally necessary (though I agree they are a good idea when you are encouraging people to use more data with faster speeds). I think people's consumption habits will tend to naturally increase the amount of data they consume over time, regardless of them having 5G or not, and after a while the caps will naturally increase as the network is updated.
Maybe but that has not happened in practice - I mean it's really mostly used for Netflix and YouTube if anything. It's not like the number of ads changes from using 4g to 5g networks, and any ads embedded in videos would also be rate limited.
"I was able to stop the Airport alone with my skills" probably gives the person a false sense of empowerment.
In what way is that false? The effect is very real, and probably a lot more than was imagined when the people sent in the drones (though honestly I think it more likely the drones were jus there to take video for fun).
Now that people know how easy it is to shut down an airport... well hang on folks, we are in for one rocky ride as the nutters seize on this as a way to use airports for political messaging.
In the end they are just going to have to learn to keep airports running despite "sightings of drones".
How far down do you think utilities go anyway? Musk is tunneling way below electrical/sewage/etc.
In the presentation he mentioned that when they finished the tunnel and drilled through the other side the person in the house next door never even noticed.
The main problem, as always with public works infrastructure, is bureaucracy and nimbyism. The secondary problem is everyone with a modicum of power wants their cut.
Now that is for-real, except that when the benefits of many small tunnels become apparent as does the lack of impact on life (no construction compared to road work or rail construction) cities will be clearing the path for tunnels to be built.
Musks current tunnels fails to meet any safety requirements
Bullshit fear mongering, source? Musk said the tunnel casings are rated for 4x the max load they need to handle (even considering earthquakes).
Now on to the civil engineers letter:
And as far as power goes, large and mid size TBMs are often connected right to the electric grid with their own dedicated substations.
Which is stupid since you need to manage cables.
A big limiting factor of most TBMs is cutting tool life. In extreme hardrock conditions cutting discs often last less than 24 hours before needing replacement.
Yes Boring Company already manages this just fine.
Its also worth noting that when a TBM is going through soft ground the space behind the cutting head needs to be kept sealed and pressurized in order to avoid collapse of the tunnel face.
Tunnel in LA already proves they can handle this since it has a wide variety of soil conditions (including a lot of oil).
Water issue: Not going to say it doesn't matter but is not a concern in quite a few cities, I'm sure they have plan for that also.
One thing not covered in the letter is how much safer Musk's tunnels are since they are smaller in diameter than typical tunnels.
Much of the small diameter utility tunnel work like what Musks suggests he'd expand into is done by small mom and pop companies in a highly fragmented market.
Which is exactly why Musk can cut costs with much better scaling of expertise and equipment.
The letter basically screams out that Boring Company will be a massive success.
what is the monthly limit and how long will it take to exceed it.
I have T-Mobile, and I really like that you can turn on unlimited bandwidth for video if you want, where it will limit video bandwidth to I think something like 720p (actually it varies by provider I believe). This means that caps matter less, because they aren't factored in for the more data heavy use of the network, and the video still looks quite good on a small screen - a good compromise.
People are saying things like "you can hit the cap in two minutes" which while technically true, does not speak to what people actually consume. If you are browsing a website once it's done loading it's not going to be using much data for as long as you are reading. Similarly checking an app for some data might have a burst of data but then it's quiet... realistically people moving to 5G probably will not be using much more data than they are already using today, so the worry about faster speeds hitting a cap sooner seems unfounded to me.
Now THAT looks like a scam. I mean what is $75 sent to those guys going to do about the people in China and Vietnam (among others in Asia) dumping plastic?
I'd way rather fund the boom trying to actually clean some of it up than give some hippy $75 to yell at me about using a plastic bottle from time to time. Even if we stopped everyone dumpling plastic tomorrow there's still plenty to clean up so it's important to fund that, and might actually accomplish something.
I was wondering how many false positives they might get from this - a local restaurant has decorative steel panels outside that look kind of like solar panels (including the angle) but are not...
Also, what do they really mean by "Solar Panel". My mom technically has a solar panel on her roof - but it's only for heating water, it does not provide power. I know at least a few other people with solar water heating panels as well, are they included in the tally yet being thought of as providing power?
The vehicles should run on rails -- metal-to-metal friction is lower than rubber to concrete, and they provide a way of powering vehicles without dealing with toxic batteries.
LOL at "toxic batteries" - you aren't going to be eating them and the material inside get recycled.
As for rails - the reason not to use them is that laying them down is a lot more exacting. It adds a lot of needless delay to building out the tunnels, a lot of maintenance in the tunnels to make sure they stay aligned exactly. Not using tracks means maintenance is mostly moved outside the tunnels, meaning fewer closures or delays (I have seen a LOT of issues with subway rails over the years, and I don't even live in a place with a subway system!).
I am also not sure the cost will be relatively small compared to tunnel cost by the time they have advanced the tunneling machines - even V1 of the tunnel was just $10 million for 1.3 miles. They are talking about making something like 10-30 tunnels between various locations, that is a hell of a lot of track.
Google and bookface would totally honor things like robots.txt files on a personal website, especially if it's hosted on some garbage "cloud" social site.
To be robots.txt was always more about "don't waste your own resources indexing this" than any kind of privacy mechanism. If they want to ignore that, hey, it's their CPU and storage.
I think personal websites still seems better. Anything public at least multiple sites would index so they could be searched generally. Anything I didn't want public I could have in a password protected area, where indexers could not reach...
It seems better than a world where something I might have written up on Facebook is just lost down a memory hole and not very findable by someone googling for something.
Now the real problem is - who is hosting these personal websites? Is it Tumblr, Wordpress? They are all kind of a mess, even compared to Facebook. And it's a lot harder to find out what friends have new content, even if they all have RSS feeds properly managed on these personal websites... pretty easy to open up and glance through a Facebook feed.
1) We might be having NK nukes set off in the U.S. by now.
2) Certainly Russia and China would have taken over a number of other countries.
3) Possibly a lot more people would have been dead that the military helped after major natural disasters.
There's a large dividend you get from having a strong country that can maintain peace, it's unknowable how much would be lost without it.
Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq would be pretty much in the same state.
But Kuwait would be gone and Iraq would still be run but that batshit insane Saddam Hussein.. very likely all the Kurds would be dead. Oh well right?
Syria would be awash with chemical weapons, after which use had no consequences most of the Middle East would start using them as well.
You are right that Afghanistan sadly would be no different, as nice as it's been keeping little girls generally acid-free we can't keep that up forever and will end up leaving at some point, when it will just revert to the prehistoric state it had become before we went in.
Add in points for slick pavement (including black ice, snow, fresh rain after droughts bringing oil to the surface, wet leaves, gravel, mixtures of these), darting dogs, pavement irregularities (including flats and anomalous breakdowns), children, food trucks, postal vehicles, delivery trucks (human-controlled and not), and it's an evil brew.
Autonomous cars already handle all of these situations much better than humans, as they have better sensors, reaction times, and understanding of how to handle slippery surfaces. Humans can only see through a somewhat tiny windshield, while autonomous vehicles can "see" the road up to right in front of the car, and generally 360 degrees around them. Humans also see from behind the hood, where cars can "see" from in front by the bumper, which means much less of a blind spot if you are trying to turn and something like a fence or large bush is on the corner.
Autonomous cars also have the side benefit that they do not get "mad", so they are perfectly willing to wait until it's absolutely safe to go one rather than trying to make a tight squeeze around some obstacle or try to custom off because they are "trying to get in my lane"...
There is also the problem of people who dislike autonomous vehicles, kick them, stand in front of them, shoot random slugs at them, and other illegal if protesting acts of defiance. Although I don't believe such protests are moral or useful, that fact won't likely stop them. Amusingly, most of the perps get caught.
I think this is going to be a big problem, especially when you consider trucking will be the first to go autonomous - you can stop the thing simply by standing out the in road. In the end autonomous shipping will probably go in small caravans that have a guard traveling with them in a sleeper cab to deal with issues like that.
For autonomous car riders of the future, probably would be good to carry a paintball gun to convince people who felt like standing in front of them it was a bad idea...
all of the plastic in earth's oceans wouldn't replace even one *millionth* of Saturn's rings
Aha, you are talking about all the plastic now - remember this is Wall-E FanFic, set in a distant time after much plastic has had time to accumulate, and the citizens showed a propensity for leaving crap outside!
An interesting technical exercise - would all of the hydrocarbons on Earth manage to produce enough plastic to make a dent in replacing Saturn's rings?
I propose a sequel to Wall-E, where humanity realizes Saturns rings are almost gone - but saves the day by replacing missing ring-ice with plastic floating in the oceans of Earth!
And builds tunnels under LA at a slower rate and at a higher cost than competent tunneling companies.
Not sure about speed but the Boring Company just had a presentation - the 1.3 mile tunnel under LA (one of the trickier drilling locations because of soil and regulatory issues) cost about 10 million to complete, vs.2 miles of NYC subway costing $3 BILLION dollars, and 2.5 miles of LA subway expansion costing $2 BILLION dollars.
Going back to speed, the stated speed goal for the Boring Company machines is to be "faster than a snail", where traditional tunneling is 14x slower than a snail... so if they're not faster already, they will be soon now that they have fine tuned the drilling machines. The same way they fine-tuned rockets and "suddenly" started landing rockets regularly.
If the ISP redirected its users to the document they requested but on Sci Hub rather than Elsevier, they probably wouldn't be violating Net Neutrality. They'd be serving their customers the resource they wanted, except they'd be redirecting the request to a less-problematic source. This is equivalent to a fair use of a proxy/CDN/cache.
Exactly the kind of thing I was trying to feel out there!!
The problem is they've taken it upon themselves to decide what their customers want, and that's a violation of Net Neutrality principles.
Aha, but to go back to devils advocate again... they are just presenting a choice. You can go to the real thing you wanted or try this other source. So it's not quite like they are deciding anything, just adding another option at the cost of a layer of indirection.
Honestly my main concern is actually, are they breaking any of the real site with the way they are providing an alternate route to reach it.
I fully support Net Neutrality principles and don't approve of pay-to-view science, but this is the wrong way to get in the fight.
I agree with that statement, I just cannot justify why and that annoys me.
If they are forced to stand trial for violating the law, this gives them standing to challenge the law
Interesting point, so retroactively this may be reasonable action depending on what they do with the stance.
Yes, redirects are part of how the web works, if the server you are contacting returns a redirect.
How do WiFi login pages (which I mentioned) work then HMMMM.
Or what about web hosts where a user has exceeded some account limit and now you get a message from the host and not the server you were trying to reach HMMMMM.
A team of researchers from Austria, Italy and Sweden has successfully demonstrated teleportation using on-demand photons from quantum dots
What I'm pretty sure this means, is that you can have one place on earth that generates a huge quantity of light, and instead of buying lightbulbs we can all just buy varying clusters of quantum dots for light that just emit the results from the singular source, no matter how far! Pretty awesome.
Imagine clothes with quantum dots embedded. Luminous!
No need to wonder if that quantum dot in the fridge is off or on. It is light, eternal!
And screw headlights on cars, we are making the WHOLE ROAD out of glowing quantum dots!
Just make sure no-one hits that master off switch... hoo-boy!!
Slashdot Mirror
In the US you can get anonymous prepaid phone service you just pay cash for (through purchased service cards you can pay cash for, anyway).
Slack began to block users in Syria, Iran, and select other embargoed countries
I hadn't really been worried about terrorism before, but now that Slack is no longer wasting the time of a whole lot of people in these countries I am deeply concerned.
If you fast speed does not make you use more total data I really question the need for the greater speed in the first place.
More speed is always nice for occasional needs though. For instance, I have downloaded a 4GB update for Xcode when on a Alaskan cruise once because I really needed to test something. I was just lucky whatever town we were near had a great LTE signal because I was able to get that done in the limited time I had to download it...
Yes there are cases where say being able to download video much faster than real time could be useful -grabbing a movie right before you board or a flight for example.
Yes, another excellent example, I've had that happen a number of times.
Most of the rest of the time I might be able to live with throated speeds, as someone else said the real advantage you'd be paying for is not as much greater bandwidth as it would be better latency. That would been more useful over time.
I'm not getting on 5G anytime soon though, will see how it plays out in reality.
I just don't see much to gain from greater speed without greater caps.
Even with diminishing returns I think a lot of people will see some value in it for improving what they do already, which is why I don't think greater caps are totally necessary (though I agree they are a good idea when you are encouraging people to use more data with faster speeds). I think people's consumption habits will tend to naturally increase the amount of data they consume over time, regardless of them having 5G or not, and after a while the caps will naturally increase as the network is updated.
What value is there in owning Slash Dot Dot?
Maybe but that has not happened in practice - I mean it's really mostly used for Netflix and YouTube if anything. It's not like the number of ads changes from using 4g to 5g networks, and any ads embedded in videos would also be rate limited.
Very funny. Coming from the same company that has been hit repeatedly for anti-competitive behavior,
On the other hand, it does fit perfectly with the "takes one to know one" theory...
"I was able to stop the Airport alone with my skills" probably gives the person a false sense of empowerment.
In what way is that false? The effect is very real, and probably a lot more than was imagined when the people sent in the drones (though honestly I think it more likely the drones were jus there to take video for fun).
Now that people know how easy it is to shut down an airport... well hang on folks, we are in for one rocky ride as the nutters seize on this as a way to use airports for political messaging.
In the end they are just going to have to learn to keep airports running despite "sightings of drones".
How far down do you think utilities go anyway? Musk is tunneling way below electrical/sewage/etc.
In the presentation he mentioned that when they finished the tunnel and drilled through the other side the person in the house next door never even noticed.
The main problem, as always with public works infrastructure, is bureaucracy and nimbyism. The secondary problem is everyone with a modicum of power wants their cut.
Now that is for-real, except that when the benefits of many small tunnels become apparent as does the lack of impact on life (no construction compared to road work or rail construction) cities will be clearing the path for tunnels to be built.
Musks current tunnels fails to meet any safety requirements
Bullshit fear mongering, source? Musk said the tunnel casings are rated for 4x the max load they need to handle (even considering earthquakes).
Now on to the civil engineers letter:
And as far as power goes, large and mid size TBMs are often connected right to the electric grid with their own dedicated substations.
Which is stupid since you need to manage cables.
A big limiting factor of most TBMs is cutting tool life. In extreme hardrock conditions cutting discs often last less than 24 hours before needing replacement.
Yes Boring Company already manages this just fine.
Its also worth noting that when a TBM is going through soft ground the space behind the cutting head needs to be kept sealed and pressurized in order to avoid collapse of the tunnel face.
Tunnel in LA already proves they can handle this since it has a wide variety of soil conditions (including a lot of oil).
Water issue: Not going to say it doesn't matter but is not a concern in quite a few cities, I'm sure they have plan for that also.
One thing not covered in the letter is how much safer Musk's tunnels are since they are smaller in diameter than typical tunnels.
Much of the small diameter utility tunnel work like what Musks suggests he'd expand into is done by small mom and pop companies in a highly fragmented market.
Which is exactly why Musk can cut costs with much better scaling of expertise and equipment.
The letter basically screams out that Boring Company will be a massive success.
what is the monthly limit and how long will it take to exceed it.
I have T-Mobile, and I really like that you can turn on unlimited bandwidth for video if you want, where it will limit video bandwidth to I think something like 720p (actually it varies by provider I believe). This means that caps matter less, because they aren't factored in for the more data heavy use of the network, and the video still looks quite good on a small screen - a good compromise.
People are saying things like "you can hit the cap in two minutes" which while technically true, does not speak to what people actually consume. If you are browsing a website once it's done loading it's not going to be using much data for as long as you are reading. Similarly checking an app for some data might have a burst of data but then it's quiet... realistically people moving to 5G probably will not be using much more data than they are already using today, so the worry about faster speeds hitting a cap sooner seems unfounded to me.
Which is not possible. Muskâ(TM)s tunnel cost $40 million per mile.
In the presentation he said it was $10 million for 1.3 miles.
Also stated - recently completed subway expansions in NYC were about $2 BILLION per mile.
This is just V1 of Musk's tunneler, they have other iterations to go that are cheaper and faster.
In the end the goal *is* multiple tunnels for throughput. As Musk said, once you go 3D you can do as many tunnels as you need.
You need to stop it from happening. https://oceanconservancy.org/
Now THAT looks like a scam. I mean what is $75 sent to those guys going to do about the people in China and Vietnam (among others in Asia) dumping plastic?
I'd way rather fund the boom trying to actually clean some of it up than give some hippy $75 to yell at me about using a plastic bottle from time to time. Even if we stopped everyone dumpling plastic tomorrow there's still plenty to clean up so it's important to fund that, and might actually accomplish something.
I was wondering how many false positives they might get from this - a local restaurant has decorative steel panels outside that look kind of like solar panels (including the angle) but are not...
Also, what do they really mean by "Solar Panel". My mom technically has a solar panel on her roof - but it's only for heating water, it does not provide power. I know at least a few other people with solar water heating panels as well, are they included in the tally yet being thought of as providing power?
The vehicles should run on rails -- metal-to-metal friction is lower than rubber to concrete, and they provide a way of powering vehicles without dealing with toxic batteries.
LOL at "toxic batteries" - you aren't going to be eating them and the material inside get recycled.
As for rails - the reason not to use them is that laying them down is a lot more exacting. It adds a lot of needless delay to building out the tunnels, a lot of maintenance in the tunnels to make sure they stay aligned exactly. Not using tracks means maintenance is mostly moved outside the tunnels, meaning fewer closures or delays (I have seen a LOT of issues with subway rails over the years, and I don't even live in a place with a subway system!).
I am also not sure the cost will be relatively small compared to tunnel cost by the time they have advanced the tunneling machines - even V1 of the tunnel was just $10 million for 1.3 miles. They are talking about making something like 10-30 tunnels between various locations, that is a hell of a lot of track.
Google and bookface would totally honor things like robots.txt files on a personal website, especially if it's hosted on some garbage "cloud" social site.
To be robots.txt was always more about "don't waste your own resources indexing this" than any kind of privacy mechanism. If they want to ignore that, hey, it's their CPU and storage.
I think personal websites still seems better. Anything public at least multiple sites would index so they could be searched generally. Anything I didn't want public I could have in a password protected area, where indexers could not reach...
It seems better than a world where something I might have written up on Facebook is just lost down a memory hole and not very findable by someone googling for something.
Now the real problem is - who is hosting these personal websites? Is it Tumblr, Wordpress? They are all kind of a mess, even compared to Facebook. And it's a lot harder to find out what friends have new content, even if they all have RSS feeds properly managed on these personal websites... pretty easy to open up and glance through a Facebook feed.
Saddam Hussein was someone you put into place in the first place you batshit idiot
So what you are saying, is that if you make a terrible mistake you should never try to rectify it...
HMM.
At half the amount spent on military:
1) We might be having NK nukes set off in the U.S. by now.
2) Certainly Russia and China would have taken over a number of other countries.
3) Possibly a lot more people would have been dead that the military helped after major natural disasters.
There's a large dividend you get from having a strong country that can maintain peace, it's unknowable how much would be lost without it.
Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq would be pretty much in the same state.
But Kuwait would be gone and Iraq would still be run but that batshit insane Saddam Hussein.. very likely all the Kurds would be dead. Oh well right?
Syria would be awash with chemical weapons, after which use had no consequences most of the Middle East would start using them as well.
You are right that Afghanistan sadly would be no different, as nice as it's been keeping little girls generally acid-free we can't keep that up forever and will end up leaving at some point, when it will just revert to the prehistoric state it had become before we went in.
Add in points for slick pavement (including black ice, snow, fresh rain after droughts bringing oil to the surface, wet leaves, gravel, mixtures of these), darting dogs, pavement irregularities (including flats and anomalous breakdowns), children, food trucks, postal vehicles, delivery trucks (human-controlled and not), and it's an evil brew.
Autonomous cars already handle all of these situations much better than humans, as they have better sensors, reaction times, and understanding of how to handle slippery surfaces. Humans can only see through a somewhat tiny windshield, while autonomous vehicles can "see" the road up to right in front of the car, and generally 360 degrees around them. Humans also see from behind the hood, where cars can "see" from in front by the bumper, which means much less of a blind spot if you are trying to turn and something like a fence or large bush is on the corner.
Autonomous cars also have the side benefit that they do not get "mad", so they are perfectly willing to wait until it's absolutely safe to go one rather than trying to make a tight squeeze around some obstacle or try to custom off because they are "trying to get in my lane"...
There is also the problem of people who dislike autonomous vehicles, kick them, stand in front of them, shoot random slugs at them, and other illegal if protesting acts of defiance. Although I don't believe such protests are moral or useful, that fact won't likely stop them. Amusingly, most of the perps get caught.
I think this is going to be a big problem, especially when you consider trucking will be the first to go autonomous - you can stop the thing simply by standing out the in road. In the end autonomous shipping will probably go in small caravans that have a guard traveling with them in a sleeper cab to deal with issues like that.
For autonomous car riders of the future, probably would be good to carry a paintball gun to convince people who felt like standing in front of them it was a bad idea...
This was a PR stunt, however
Well yeah.
all of the plastic in earth's oceans wouldn't replace even one *millionth* of Saturn's rings
Aha, you are talking about all the plastic now - remember this is Wall-E FanFic, set in a distant time after much plastic has had time to accumulate, and the citizens showed a propensity for leaving crap outside!
An interesting technical exercise - would all of the hydrocarbons on Earth manage to produce enough plastic to make a dent in replacing Saturn's rings?
I propose a sequel to Wall-E, where humanity realizes Saturns rings are almost gone - but saves the day by replacing missing ring-ice with plastic floating in the oceans of Earth!
And builds tunnels under LA at a slower rate and at a higher cost than competent tunneling companies.
Not sure about speed but the Boring Company just had a presentation - the 1.3 mile tunnel under LA (one of the trickier drilling locations because of soil and regulatory issues) cost about 10 million to complete, vs.2 miles of NYC subway costing $3 BILLION dollars, and 2.5 miles of LA subway expansion costing $2 BILLION dollars.
Going back to speed, the stated speed goal for the Boring Company machines is to be "faster than a snail", where traditional tunneling is 14x slower than a snail... so if they're not faster already, they will be soon now that they have fine tuned the drilling machines. The same way they fine-tuned rockets and "suddenly" started landing rockets regularly.
I was wondering why Netflix started to bring up a video category "Shows for People Who Wear Blue Underwear on Fridays".
If the ISP redirected its users to the document they requested but on Sci Hub rather than Elsevier, they probably wouldn't be violating Net Neutrality. They'd be serving their customers the resource they wanted, except they'd be redirecting the request to a less-problematic source. This is equivalent to a fair use of a proxy/CDN/cache.
Exactly the kind of thing I was trying to feel out there!!
The problem is they've taken it upon themselves to decide what their customers want, and that's a violation of Net Neutrality principles.
Aha, but to go back to devils advocate again... they are just presenting a choice. You can go to the real thing you wanted or try this other source. So it's not quite like they are deciding anything, just adding another option at the cost of a layer of indirection.
Honestly my main concern is actually, are they breaking any of the real site with the way they are providing an alternate route to reach it.
I fully support Net Neutrality principles and don't approve of pay-to-view science, but this is the wrong way to get in the fight.
I agree with that statement, I just cannot justify why and that annoys me.
If they are forced to stand trial for violating the law, this gives them standing to challenge the law
Interesting point, so retroactively this may be reasonable action depending on what they do with the stance.
Thanks for a very thoughtful response.
Yes, redirects are part of how the web works, if the server you are contacting returns a redirect.
How do WiFi login pages (which I mentioned) work then HMMMM.
Or what about web hosts where a user has exceeded some account limit and now you get a message from the host and not the server you were trying to reach HMMMMM.
A team of researchers from Austria, Italy and Sweden has successfully demonstrated teleportation using on-demand photons from quantum dots
What I'm pretty sure this means, is that you can have one place on earth that generates a huge quantity of light, and instead of buying lightbulbs we can all just buy varying clusters of quantum dots for light that just emit the results from the singular source, no matter how far! Pretty awesome.
Imagine clothes with quantum dots embedded. Luminous!
No need to wonder if that quantum dot in the fridge is off or on. It is light, eternal!
And screw headlights on cars, we are making the WHOLE ROAD out of glowing quantum dots!
Just make sure no-one hits that master off switch... hoo-boy!!