You're asking for a kind of button that will make it possible to rely upon a 2-year-old child as a caretaker.
That's funny. I thought he was asking for a kind of button that would make it possible for his child to communicate with him as a backup measure, given the video surveillance and all.
Well, you thought wrong - because he plainly states the purpose is to have the two year old alert him that he needs to check the video cameras and there is no indication of either the existence of a primary alert system or that he is monitoring the cameras with sufficient regularity to serve as the primary alert system.
You're also free to argue that epileptic parents should not be allowed to be alone with their children since their children might be required to be "caretakers," whether via a button, a telephone capable of 911, or merely living within distance to run to a neighbor. Because we'd all support that.
"Child", not "children" - and really, a toddler, not even a child. (The infant can safely be left out of the "caretaker" equation.)
This is an attempt to shift all responsibility for the parent's care onto the child.
It's an attempt to shift a significant portion of the care onto the toddler. Anyone with sense would question that.
All of this is based on the seizure of his lap top.
The lap top was just the endgame - he'd already left enough small clues scattered about for law enforcement to figure out who was worth looking at. He made the classic security error of the n00b, he thought he had encryption and that made him safe.
I don't understand why the idea is being implemented in such a modest manner. The animation has the rocket stage carried aloft for ignition at high altitude by what looks like an F-18. While I don't doubt the performance of the Hornet's engines, wouldn't it make more sense to extend the payload capacity with a larger carrier craft? Say something on the order of the 747-based shuttle carriers?
Is there a good engineering reason why concepts such as the Soviet-era MAKS was not pursued?
The F-15 is designed to handle steep high speed climbs, the 747 isn't. The steep high speed climb only contributes a very small percentage to total system performance. (A vital percentage in such a low performance system, but small nonetheless.)
The other reason is that, other than the point solution of small payloads to low orbit, air launch doesn't actually work all the well. The basic problem is that boosters grow bigger far faster than payload capacity rises - which means a 747 only gets you to performance of a 60's era Atlas. (Even if ground clearance wasn't an issue.) This means that an air launcher capable of hoisting a booster with sufficient performance to be useful will have to be a very large custom built vehicle - at which point the putative cost savings go right out the window.
Air launch is one of those concepts, like many perpetual motion machines, that looks very good on the back of an envelope... but which falls apart rapidly once you start running the actual numbers. Which is why, despite being rediscovered to great fanfare every couple of years, significant air launch systems have continually failed to materialize.
One of these authors that was writing before 1950 was Robert Heinlein who first published in 1947
Robert Heinlein was first published in 1939.
And frankly, the rest of your thesis is equally off base. SF and SF magazine were already well established by the beginning of the war. And you're wrong about the "pulps" - those predate WWII as well. And... well you spelled Heinlein's name correctly, so kudos for that.
In the same vein Ballantine didn't invent paperback books (those were invented in the 1850's) or paperback SF. At best he made them available to a wider audience.
I'd guess that turning radius might be a big part of the equation. Ship's corridors and walkways are pretty tight, and they're designed around people - who actually occupy a fairly small footprint, can turn in place, and can corner pretty tightly.
They would go broke. The reason all of the sensors are there is because when they didn't have sensors, and some farmer misused they tool and got hurt, they sued the manufacturer
Quit being such a corporate tool.
The tort aspect of this is likely completely irrelevant since these are likely highly self reliant types used to fending for themselves for various reasons.
You've been reading waaay to much fiction, or you're a "tool" of romantic idealists. The vast majority of modern farmers (I.E. those able to afford farm equipment running into six figures) are businessmen, not self reliant loners. (Among other things, that means they have insurance, and insurance companies willing to sue of their behalf.)
If I buy a few parts from each of adafruit, sparkfun et al even ground shipping quickly adds up to more than the cost of the parts themselves
And just who do you think is going to pay the cost of shipping the parts from SparkFun to your local Radio Shack? (Hint, it's not going to be SparkFun or Radio Shack.) Shipping and handling is a minor component of the cost of an item purchased at retail because they're handled in bulk and the costs are amortized over a large number of items. Shipping and handling is a large component of mail order because the items are handled individually - and that doesn't change just because they're delivered to your local Radio Shack rather than to your doorstep. (And no, they're not going to absorb $5 S&H on a $0.75 part the way Best Buy will on a $20 cable.)
I'll bet some of those hobby suppliers would have been amenable to merchandising a network of warehouses that they too could ship from around the US.
Only if they're absolutely insane. Warehouses and inventory cost money, big money, and are only justified when the sufficient sales volume or demand for next day delivery justifies it. Neither exists in the case of retailers of electronic components - there's a reason why all the storefront chains of component retailers either gone bankrupt, been absorbed, or added additional lines of merchandise.
My point being, once you already have a high-street retail presence and a logistics setup to handle distribution then they may have well found something to do with it.
I grasped your point. Meanwhile you completely fail to grasp the cost and complexities involved. Same-day and next-day distribution adds both of these above and beyond the normal costs of retail logistics. There's a reason why few retailers have adopted that model, or limited it to stock on hand.
Really, how much would it have taken to recognize 5 years ago that they could allow someone to order their choice from a wide range of items before noon and pick it up in-store after 5pm same day
A huge assortment of stock in every store just in case some oddball wanted some odd thing from the catalog and had to have it that day. (Or a central warehouse (big $$$ in infrastructure) as well as drivers and delivery vehicles.) It's not a very tenable business model, there's a reason why every click-and-mortar retailer of which I'm aware limits same pickup to items in stock.
For the geeky well endowed, could they really not have offered 3d printed parts on a similar delivery schedule (or even in-store) or small scale manufactured parts.
No, not really. The same reasons above apply here too.
SDCs have already logged hundreds of thousands of miles on public roads, and have a safety record better than human drivers.
So, they've logged fewer operating miles than accumulate in the US in a single day? Impressive.
And how many of those miles have been in a typical Pacific Northwest blinding rainstorm? Or after a snow storm such as the Northeast experienced last week? (Etc... etc...) Or to put it another way, the numbers logged as only impressive to the easily impressionable.
I would be surprised if it is putting a big dent the $700+ market.
The problem in that market the last couple of years isn't smartphones. It's the lingering effects of the economic crash (amateurs aren't buying cameras, and fewer are hiring pros which means they aren't buying) combined with the camera releases of the last few years largely being unexciting. DSLR tech is plateauing and as a result upgrade cycles are getting longer.
BTW the local RS dude assures me that he owns his business... what happens to those guys when RS goes tits-up??
I thought most locally Radio Shack's went away back in the 90's and 00's... the one I worked at in the 90's was one of the last. Anyhow, when Radio Shack goes under, they probably won't be able to use the name anymore.
Their academic success is due to my wife's dedication and the curriculum that best fit the children.
[[Citation Needed]]
Because, seriously, the accomplishments you list aren't all that impressive and certainly aren't notably better than kids I've known who went to public schools. So either, a) you're not aware that your children are painfully average, b) all four suffer from some learning disability that public schools failed to address, or c) you resided in the country's absolute worst school district or suffered from some other severe disadvantage.
From TFS: If genuine, the transcript shows that members of the Hell's Angels organization are familiar with using encryption to shield their communications from law enforcement.
Not really news, I seem to recall coming across mention of this (with regards to the Angels) back in the late 90's/early 00's. Not that criminals using codes or ciphers or various other means of obscuring or obfuscating their communications is exactly new in any form.
1a) Doesn't anyone know what a pinhole camera looks like?
You're obviously not a photographer - because pinhole cameras can look like literally *anything*. A cardboard box, a wooden box, a soda can, potato chip can, an oatmeal box, a piece of Tupperware... literally anything. There's a group that turned an entire aircraft hangar into a giant pinhole camera. There's also a guy who rebuilt the back of a van into a pinhole camera.
A pinhole camera doesn't look like a specific thing - it's just a light tight container with a pinhole on one end and a way of holding film more or less flat inside it.
Most of you probably don't remember back in the sixties when Radio Shack was the retail distribution arm of Allied Radio (yes, it was known as Allied Radio Shack), a major components distributor. It was a real parts store the. Eventually Tandy picked up the chain, began selling branded parts, and it was never quite the same.
Um... most folks can't remember that, because it never happened. Tandy bought Radio Shack in 1972, and then Radio Shack bought Allied Radio in 1970 and merged them. (Prior to that, Allied Radio had been a subsidiary of Columbia and a competitor to Radio Shack.) They were only briefly known as Allied Radio Shack, before Allied was spun off by court order and it subsequently died. On top of that, Allied pretty much followed the same path as Radio Shack - it started as a parts and components dealer, but by the 1960's it had long since become a consumer electronics dealer with a strong sideline in parts and components.
The reality is that the advent of the personal computer, the death of manufacturing in the U.S., and an educational system that no longer valued engineering skills combined to kill the electronics hobbyist market that the Radio Shack depended upon.
The reality is, Radio Shack hadn't been wholly dependent on the electronics hobbyist market since the 1930's - when it entered the hi-fi market. In 1954, the Realistic brand was introduced as it began to move into the more general consumer electronics market. By the early/mid 1970's, though the product mix varied by store (especially if your local store was independently owned), the transition company wide was largely complete - viewed as a whole they had become a consumer electronics store with a modest sideline in hobbyist parts and components. The advent of the personal computer was a decade away.
There are many causes to Radio Shack's decline and fall, but moving away from the electronics hobbyist market played no significant part.
When you eat properly, there is no need for any vitamin supplement, period. You can get all vitamins and minerals and whatnot from your food - people have done just that for thousands upon thousands of years.
Contrary to your paleo-bullshit, people have been dying, or having their life expectancy significantly shortened, due to nutritional deficiencies for thousands upon thousands of years too. (I.E pellegra, scurvy, goiter, etc.... etc...)
Think again. A lot of hispanics, especially in Florida are really mad about that.
No shit Sherlock. Why do you think I said they wouldn't vote for Obama, or any Democrat toeing his line?
It was more about destroying American sovereignty. Make America just another banana republic.
Either you're a raving dammfool lunatic right wing nutjob, or you're just a raving dammfool lunatic nutjob. There's insufficient evidence to decide between them.
Why is the Libertarian view on this particular narrow situation not the correct view?
Well, first you need to compare apples to apples - because in this case, you made no comparison at all. You took the worst situation from two cities out of the entire country and compared it to some mythical "libertarian view" rather than facts to facts.
The summary tries to cast a lot of shade on Uber for allowing this but honestly doesn't this put them 1000 years ahead of the cab industry where you cannot even see ratings for cab drivers AT ALL?
With the cab industry, I don't *need* to see the rating of the driver. It's a regulated industry providing a commodity product - he's gonna pick me up, drive me to where I want to go, and drop me off there with no fuss and no nonsense. Regulation ensures that he's very unlikely to rip me off and will deliver me in a timely fashion in one piece.
He's just bludgeoning the Republicans with soundbite-worthy policy ideas that will whip up specific portions of his base in preparation for the next election.
And the sad part - the base is eating it up. They think he's serious. Neither side seems to have any idea of how adroitly they're being played.
I have to admit he surprised me on Cuba. Definitely didn't see THAT one coming.
Me too. But it only took about a minutes thought to figure out why... with Jeb Bush making noises about a Presidential run, President Obama is yielding Florida right out of the gate. Smart, very smart. He's no LBJ, but President Obama does have his moments.
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Well, you thought wrong - because he plainly states the purpose is to have the two year old alert him that he needs to check the video cameras and there is no indication of either the existence of a primary alert system or that he is monitoring the cameras with sufficient regularity to serve as the primary alert system.
"Child", not "children" - and really, a toddler, not even a child. (The infant can safely be left out of the "caretaker" equation.)
It's an attempt to shift a significant portion of the care onto the toddler. Anyone with sense would question that.
Dammit! Beat me to it.
The lap top was just the endgame - he'd already left enough small clues scattered about for law enforcement to figure out who was worth looking at. He made the classic security error of the n00b, he thought he had encryption and that made him safe.
Sounds more like he was stupid from the get go, and it just took a little time for it to catch up with him.
And it points out the truth of what I've said repeatedly - security is more than encryption. Much, much more.
The F-15 is designed to handle steep high speed climbs, the 747 isn't. The steep high speed climb only contributes a very small percentage to total system performance. (A vital percentage in such a low performance system, but small nonetheless.)
The other reason is that, other than the point solution of small payloads to low orbit, air launch doesn't actually work all the well. The basic problem is that boosters grow bigger far faster than payload capacity rises - which means a 747 only gets you to performance of a 60's era Atlas. (Even if ground clearance wasn't an issue.) This means that an air launcher capable of hoisting a booster with sufficient performance to be useful will have to be a very large custom built vehicle - at which point the putative cost savings go right out the window.
Air launch is one of those concepts, like many perpetual motion machines, that looks very good on the back of an envelope... but which falls apart rapidly once you start running the actual numbers. Which is why, despite being rediscovered to great fanfare every couple of years, significant air launch systems have continually failed to materialize.
Robert Heinlein was first published in 1939.
And frankly, the rest of your thesis is equally off base. SF and SF magazine were already well established by the beginning of the war. And you're wrong about the "pulps" - those predate WWII as well. And... well you spelled Heinlein's name correctly, so kudos for that.
In the same vein Ballantine didn't invent paperback books (those were invented in the 1850's) or paperback SF. At best he made them available to a wider audience.
I'd guess that turning radius might be a big part of the equation. Ship's corridors and walkways are pretty tight, and they're designed around people - who actually occupy a fairly small footprint, can turn in place, and can corner pretty tightly.
/former USN.
You've been reading waaay to much fiction, or you're a "tool" of romantic idealists. The vast majority of modern farmers (I.E. those able to afford farm equipment running into six figures) are businessmen, not self reliant loners. (Among other things, that means they have insurance, and insurance companies willing to sue of their behalf.)
And just who do you think is going to pay the cost of shipping the parts from SparkFun to your local Radio Shack? (Hint, it's not going to be SparkFun or Radio Shack.) Shipping and handling is a minor component of the cost of an item purchased at retail because they're handled in bulk and the costs are amortized over a large number of items. Shipping and handling is a large component of mail order because the items are handled individually - and that doesn't change just because they're delivered to your local Radio Shack rather than to your doorstep. (And no, they're not going to absorb $5 S&H on a $0.75 part the way Best Buy will on a $20 cable.)
Only if they're absolutely insane. Warehouses and inventory cost money, big money, and are only justified when the sufficient sales volume or demand for next day delivery justifies it. Neither exists in the case of retailers of electronic components - there's a reason why all the storefront chains of component retailers either gone bankrupt, been absorbed, or added additional lines of merchandise.
I grasped your point. Meanwhile you completely fail to grasp the cost and complexities involved. Same-day and next-day distribution adds both of these above and beyond the normal costs of retail logistics. There's a reason why few retailers have adopted that model, or limited it to stock on hand.
A huge assortment of stock in every store just in case some oddball wanted some odd thing from the catalog and had to have it that day. (Or a central warehouse (big $$$ in infrastructure) as well as drivers and delivery vehicles.) It's not a very tenable business model, there's a reason why every click-and-mortar retailer of which I'm aware limits same pickup to items in stock.
No, not really. The same reasons above apply here too.
So, they've logged fewer operating miles than accumulate in the US in a single day? Impressive.
And how many of those miles have been in a typical Pacific Northwest blinding rainstorm? Or after a snow storm such as the Northeast experienced last week? (Etc... etc...) Or to put it another way, the numbers logged as only impressive to the easily impressionable.
The problem in that market the last couple of years isn't smartphones. It's the lingering effects of the economic crash (amateurs aren't buying cameras, and fewer are hiring pros which means they aren't buying) combined with the camera releases of the last few years largely being unexciting. DSLR tech is plateauing and as a result upgrade cycles are getting longer.
I thought most locally Radio Shack's went away back in the 90's and 00's... the one I worked at in the 90's was one of the last. Anyhow, when Radio Shack goes under, they probably won't be able to use the name anymore.
[[Citation Needed]]
Because, seriously, the accomplishments you list aren't all that impressive and certainly aren't notably better than kids I've known who went to public schools. So either, a) you're not aware that your children are painfully average, b) all four suffer from some learning disability that public schools failed to address, or c) you resided in the country's absolute worst school district or suffered from some other severe disadvantage.
USN Submarine Service, 1981-1991.
So? Being in the military doesn't necessarily make you familiar with encryption, or communications, or related security issues.
From TFS: If genuine, the transcript shows that members of the Hell's Angels organization are familiar with using encryption to shield their communications from law enforcement.
Not really news, I seem to recall coming across mention of this (with regards to the Angels) back in the late 90's/early 00's. Not that criminals using codes or ciphers or various other means of obscuring or obfuscating their communications is exactly new in any form.
You're obviously not a photographer - because pinhole cameras can look like literally *anything*. A cardboard box, a wooden box, a soda can, potato chip can, an oatmeal box, a piece of Tupperware... literally anything. There's a group that turned an entire aircraft hangar into a giant pinhole camera. There's also a guy who rebuilt the back of a van into a pinhole camera.
A pinhole camera doesn't look like a specific thing - it's just a light tight container with a pinhole on one end and a way of holding film more or less flat inside it.
Didn't need to, he was repeating their propaganda line for line and leaving out all the inconvient bits as such mental midgets usually do.
No, reading is not hard. *Thinking* is hard - and it's something you and he both fail at.
Um... most folks can't remember that, because it never happened. Tandy bought Radio Shack in 1972, and then Radio Shack bought Allied Radio in 1970 and merged them. (Prior to that, Allied Radio had been a subsidiary of Columbia and a competitor to Radio Shack.) They were only briefly known as Allied Radio Shack, before Allied was spun off by court order and it subsequently died. On top of that, Allied pretty much followed the same path as Radio Shack - it started as a parts and components dealer, but by the 1960's it had long since become a consumer electronics dealer with a strong sideline in parts and components.
The reality is, Radio Shack hadn't been wholly dependent on the electronics hobbyist market since the 1930's - when it entered the hi-fi market. In 1954, the Realistic brand was introduced as it began to move into the more general consumer electronics market. By the early/mid 1970's, though the product mix varied by store (especially if your local store was independently owned), the transition company wide was largely complete - viewed as a whole they had become a consumer electronics store with a modest sideline in hobbyist parts and components. The advent of the personal computer was a decade away.
There are many causes to Radio Shack's decline and fall, but moving away from the electronics hobbyist market played no significant part.
Contrary to your paleo-bullshit, people have been dying, or having their life expectancy significantly shortened, due to nutritional deficiencies for thousands upon thousands of years too. (I.E pellegra, scurvy, goiter, etc.... etc...)
No shit Sherlock. Why do you think I said they wouldn't vote for Obama, or any Democrat toeing his line?
Either you're a raving dammfool lunatic right wing nutjob, or you're just a raving dammfool lunatic nutjob. There's insufficient evidence to decide between them.
Well, first you need to compare apples to apples - because in this case, you made no comparison at all. You took the worst situation from two cities out of the entire country and compared it to some mythical "libertarian view" rather than facts to facts.
With the cab industry, I don't *need* to see the rating of the driver. It's a regulated industry providing a commodity product - he's gonna pick me up, drive me to where I want to go, and drop me off there with no fuss and no nonsense. Regulation ensures that he's very unlikely to rip me off and will deliver me in a timely fashion in one piece.
And the sad part - the base is eating it up. They think he's serious. Neither side seems to have any idea of how adroitly they're being played.
Me too. But it only took about a minutes thought to figure out why... with Jeb Bush making noises about a Presidential run, President Obama is yielding Florida right out of the gate. Smart, very smart. He's no LBJ, but President Obama does have his moments.