Anything I put on a social network, I consider it "lost". I treat it like conversation. Growing up, there was never any expectation that my conversations would be archived. I treat social networks like that.
And that's a mistake. Because they are being archived, but not by you and not for your purposes but by a corporation for corporate purposes and by anybody who's interested in recording your profile over time. It's creepy how easy Facebook and any other social media site make it to build a profile on you.
I predict that soon it will be an everyday occurrence to hear of people who have been impersonated based on Facebook data, and occasionally for more than just simple theft.
Wire wrap vs. conductive thread - wire wrap is air sealed so it doesn't corrode, giving it a decent working life and resistance to corrosion. Conductive thread is not air sealed, so it oxidises fairly quickly and fails.
Wire wrap isn't air sealed at the joints. Conductive thread wicks water. Very bad for corrosion.
A good wire-wrap job can be very functional but it's not as reliable as soldered wires. You're relying in tension and pressure to make the metal-to-metal contact and the contacts are exposed to air and possibly water penetration. The solder connection is both lower resistance and has the electrical contact coated in solder. Solders are pretty resistant to corrosion and form a good seal against water and whatever corrosive materials it carries.
The advantage is you can print and assemble the parts in just two process steps per side and eliminate the tooling costs. The trouble is I don't know if there's a suitable material available -- a printable conductive glue essentially.
The barrier to this approach for prototyping is you need a direct-printable conductive glue. I'd use this for proof-of-concept. For saleable items, I'd want something more robust.
Breach of faith means that somebody failed to meet their commitments. That can mean that they signed up to do things that they later found out were harder than they thought. That's incompetence. Or more often it means that they knew they wouldn't come through and took your money anyway.
The fact that they were paid in advance for hardware tells me it's more likely corruption/fraud than plain incompetence, but often you get the incompetence rolled into a fraudulent deal.
How about printing conductive epoxy and then press on the chips before the epoxy sets? You'd be stuck with planar layouts, but that would be fine for many circuits You could even do two-sided assemblies if you're willing to add drill stages and a second printing step.
But it will probably never work for real products. I'd never have the gall to sell an electronic product with connections made of conductive thread. I'd sooner hand-wire it together on perf board.
3D printing works if you need to make one or five objects that don't need to be very robust. But you don't have to get into very high numbers at all before it's cheaper get injection-molded custom parts that are much stronger.
Make the auto manufacturer liable if they made provisions for the driver to be able to display to the driver applications not related to operation of the vehicle.
There's a lot of other things likely to topple friendly governments that Panetta should be worrying about before he gets to climate change. If we ever get to the point that climate change is in the top ten of our security concerns, either the planet is seriously fucked or we have solved all the serious problems.
I bet you never thought they could hijack a plane with box cutters either. But four teams accomplished that in a coordinated attack on the same day and 3 of the four reached their targets.
Two or three highly motivated people can circumvent any security measure you can think of.
The fact that we havent' seen another successful attack on an aircraft in the 11 years since 9/11 doesn't mean that our security measures made it impossible. All of the attacks that they have made in that time have been poorly coordinated, not thoroughly thought through and carried out by incompetents. That's not the signature of the 9/11 crew.
If another batch of people like that comes after us, all our security measures, even the ones you think are so reliable, will count for nothing, because they'll have figured out how to defeat them or use them against us. Only security measures that aren't apparent to the enemy have a real chance of stopping them.
It's not widely used because it's secure. It's widely used because it's cheap, and it's easily capable of doing the job in back-end environments where it can be locked down and prevented from running arbitrary code at the user's whim.
But the monoculture of Apple and to a lesser extent Windows is also what makes those systems so useful to so many people. You don't have to understand every intricacy of software systems that branch like a wild vine to get something done on a stock Windows or Apple system.
The same thing that makes the Apple and Windows system so vulnerable to malwares is what make it so easy for a user or an administrator to comprehend how to use and configure it. And this is for the same reason. It's inefficient for humans to understand a number of intricate systems rather than to just have a working knowledge of one kind of system and then deploy that wherever they can use it.
Toppling governments and feeding terrorist movements and destabilizing entire regions. What's the big deal. That's all in a day's work at the Pentagon.
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Anything I put on a social network, I consider it "lost". I treat it like conversation. Growing up, there was never any expectation that my conversations would be archived. I treat social networks like that.
And that's a mistake. Because they are being archived, but not by you and not for your purposes but by a corporation for corporate purposes and by anybody who's interested in recording your profile over time. It's creepy how easy Facebook and any other social media site make it to build a profile on you.
I predict that soon it will be an everyday occurrence to hear of people who have been impersonated based on Facebook data, and occasionally for more than just simple theft.
Wire wrap vs. conductive thread - wire wrap is air sealed so it doesn't corrode, giving it a decent working life and resistance to corrosion. Conductive thread is not air sealed, so it oxidises fairly quickly and fails.
Wire wrap isn't air sealed at the joints. Conductive thread wicks water. Very bad for corrosion.
A good wire-wrap job can be very functional but it's not as reliable as soldered wires. You're relying in tension and pressure to make the metal-to-metal contact and the contacts are exposed to air and possibly water penetration. The solder connection is both lower resistance and has the electrical contact coated in solder. Solders are pretty resistant to corrosion and form a good seal against water and whatever corrosive materials it carries.
Or alternate printing layers of conductive and nonconductive epoxy. The trick is to have a printable epoxy.
The advantage is you can print and assemble the parts in just two process steps per side and eliminate the tooling costs. The trouble is I don't know if there's a suitable material available -- a printable conductive glue essentially.
The barrier to this approach for prototyping is you need a direct-printable conductive glue. I'd use this for proof-of-concept. For saleable items, I'd want something more robust.
That's no excuse.
150k miles, they say, under conditions we don't know but they controlled.
BS. My business would definitely pay for software that was guaranteed to work error free or at least guaranteed not to produce incorrect results.
They wouldn't do it if they weren't getting paid. They're parties to an extortion conspiracy.
Not only that, but your comments are a political screed totally unrelated to the original article.
The drawings of da Vinci influenced our understanding of how the body is put together.
incomeptent contracts != corruption
Breach of faith means that somebody failed to meet their commitments. That can mean that they signed up to do things that they later found out were harder than they thought. That's incompetence. Or more often it means that they knew they wouldn't come through and took your money anyway.
The fact that they were paid in advance for hardware tells me it's more likely corruption/fraud than plain incompetence, but often you get the incompetence rolled into a fraudulent deal.
Then I recommend using a TV for TV.
How about printing conductive epoxy and then press on the chips before the epoxy sets? You'd be stuck with planar layouts, but that would be fine for many circuits You could even do two-sided assemblies if you're willing to add drill stages and a second printing step.
But it will probably never work for real products. I'd never have the gall to sell an electronic product with connections made of conductive thread. I'd sooner hand-wire it together on perf board.
3D printing works if you need to make one or five objects that don't need to be very robust. But you don't have to get into very high numbers at all before it's cheaper get injection-molded custom parts that are much stronger.
Make the auto manufacturer liable if they made provisions for the driver to be able to display to the driver applications not related to operation of the vehicle.
There's a lot of other things likely to topple friendly governments that Panetta should be worrying about before he gets to climate change. If we ever get to the point that climate change is in the top ten of our security concerns, either the planet is seriously fucked or we have solved all the serious problems.
My wife uses an iPad for that all the time. She finds the iPad satisfactory for this purpose.
Mostly, she uses it for music and recipes.
I bet you never thought they could hijack a plane with box cutters either. But four teams accomplished that in a coordinated attack on the same day and 3 of the four reached their targets.
Two or three highly motivated people can circumvent any security measure you can think of.
The fact that we havent' seen another successful attack on an aircraft in the 11 years since 9/11 doesn't mean that our security measures made it impossible. All of the attacks that they have made in that time have been poorly coordinated, not thoroughly thought through and carried out by incompetents. That's not the signature of the 9/11 crew.
If another batch of people like that comes after us, all our security measures, even the ones you think are so reliable, will count for nothing, because they'll have figured out how to defeat them or use them against us. Only security measures that aren't apparent to the enemy have a real chance of stopping them.
If our actions topple them, they're not our friends. Try to keep up.
Affordable has nothing to do with it. Convenience and security are the pair that can't come together.
It's not widely used because it's secure. It's widely used because it's cheap, and it's easily capable of doing the job in back-end environments where it can be locked down and prevented from running arbitrary code at the user's whim.
But the monoculture of Apple and to a lesser extent Windows is also what makes those systems so useful to so many people. You don't have to understand every intricacy of software systems that branch like a wild vine to get something done on a stock Windows or Apple system.
The same thing that makes the Apple and Windows system so vulnerable to malwares is what make it so easy for a user or an administrator to comprehend how to use and configure it. And this is for the same reason. It's inefficient for humans to understand a number of intricate systems rather than to just have a working knowledge of one kind of system and then deploy that wherever they can use it.
Toppling governments and feeding terrorist movements and destabilizing entire regions. What's the big deal. That's all in a day's work at the Pentagon.
By exaggerating the effects of the problem and making out like a change that happens so slowly you almost can't see it is suddenly an emergency.