In fact their method of freezing pretty much ensures you can NEVER be unfrozen. 1C per hour means some pretty large ice crystal will be forming that will completely shred cell membranes.
Until they've successfully unfrozen someone, it's just a fad for the rich and/or stupid.
They don't give a single shit about the opinions of the people using their "products". I've not met a single person who likes the new maps interface. It's ugly, slow, covers the screen with lots of worthless crap, and makes the simplest of tasks all but impossible to do.
EVERY TIME they switch me back to the "new" bullshit, I cannot switch it back fast enough.
Except you had all the resources that come with being on Earth -- air, water, various critters to eat. And, most importantly, you knew, at the end of the day, you could always hike your ass back to civilization: you were not alone, certainly not to the extent a dozen people in a capsule on target for Mars will be.
With a sufficiently frugal existence, it's rather easy to "live off the grid." Humans did so for millions of years before there was a grid; it's simply inconvenient to do so today.
The "grid" doesn't store energy, it delivers it -- and nowhere near 100% efficiency either. Power is generated "on demand". While there are spots around the country/globe where utilities experiment with storing excess production -- flywheels, exotic batteries, thermal wells, etc., it is a very rare exception.
In reality, No. Restricted technology is supposed to be tracked all the way to the "end user", but given the nature of computer chips, this simply isn't going to happen. China simply won't be able to order processors by the pallet direct from Intel. This will not, in any way, stop them from getting the processors they want.
True, but it will tell any compliant bot to fuck off. So no matter how many links there are to your stuff, it will not be indexed (and thus easily found.)
You do realize 30m is less than 100ft? That technology wouldn't work from the closet to my desk within my small office. (my office being the farthest from the closet) 30m is less than 1/3rd the max distance of standard ethernet. Ethernet isn't that expensive or difficult to wire. (and the "phone" is very likely to be cat5e in the first place -- cheap and abundant.)
You do know, you can get commercial service ("fiber") from anyone, right? You have to be worth the effort to get anyone to actually run the fiber in the first place, 'tho. (sometimes, even paying 100% of the costs isn't enough.)
Yes, big ships can often be controlled somewhere other than the bridge/wheel house. That would commonly be the engine room.
No aircraft is that big. 'tho if hollywood is to be believed, one can take over a plane from the avionics bay. (one could certainly *crash* one, but actually flying it... not gonna happen. Plus, it's a very tiny space.)
That's not DSL, it's "Uverse". And it's not "cable" (i.e. coax), it's twisted-pair phone service.
In a nutshell, traditionally there are three types of wire carrying three different services: power (large braided steel/aluminium/copper), phone (24-32awg copper pair), and cable (coax) Thanks to modern technologies, all three can be used to carry data ("the internet".) Thanks to additional technologies, both phone and tv are now "data", and thus, can be fed over any of those common wires. However, the point remains -- You have ONE power utility, ONE phone utility, and ONE cable utility. You don't have 5 power companies, 19 telcos, and 17 cable companies spidering various cables all over creation to millions of consumers. In the "last mile", there is very little competition. If you want to sell me DSL, you WILL be paying AT&T, because they own the local lines.
Really? How many cable operators are available to your house? VERY few places in the US have more than one. You have "competition" in the form of technology -- one company per: cable, dsl, powerline -- but that's all. And it's very far from any meaningful motivator. Healthy competition means the barriers to entry are not 9000 miles high and dripping with ebola. Wanna build your own Super Awesome Cable Co? Sorry, prohibited by franchise agreement. Wanna run your own fiber/copper network? I hope you've budgeted many millions for lawyers, because you *will* be spending *years* in courts before you get to bury the first foot.
And before you bring up satellite and cellular... Satellite is the internet tech of the ninth level of hell; it's a serious punishment. Cellular is exceedingly expensive.
Comcast isn't a "utility", and they don't give a shit who owns the property. For residential service, you'll get no "contract"; they can (and often do) drop the order. For business service, you can get an actual contract, but read it carefully as there will almost always be wiggle room to get them out of it.
Or, perhaps, going to the prospective new home and looking for signs of cable access. If there's no coax cable running into (and to various places within) the house, odds are it's not serviceable. Looking on the poles and along streets for signs of Comcast infrastructure also isn't f'ing difficult. It's as if this guy did the entire transaction "over the internet".
CenturyLink's refusal to provide service should've been disclosed up-front. It's not like they ran out of ports in the time between his call(s) and moving in.
Ask a thousand random people who Tanner Foust is. If anything, they'll say "Top Gear host?"; they will be unaware of any of his championships. The areas in which he races are relatively unknown to most people -- hell, most motor sports are; the drivers in those series are even less known.
Also, let's not delude people: no (petrochemical) plastic biodegrades. Nothing will eat the shit. It will chemically breakdown (albeit VERY slowly.) And it will photo-degrade, assuming sunlight can get to it and wasn't mixed with lots of UV stabilizer.
Right. And everyone is supposed to declare the actual value of the item crossing the border. I laugh every time I get something at work from outside the country; that SSL crypto card is "$100", and the "web server" it goes in "$2000". "Value for customs only. Not for sell" No shit!
And Cisco will enter the serial number in their portal -- btw, used to be, anyone could lookup any serial number, only a Cisco Employee would be able to see who owns it, 'tho. That search will show it was sold to IBM: "we sold it to IBM in 1992. Go ask them how restricted technology ended up on eBay."
(Shit happens. Remember the F-16 parts that ended up on eBay? The only way to know what they were, and that they were classified/restricted, was to look up the random-looking "part no.". (do you have the parts manifest for an F16?) To you, me, and apparently the junk recycler who put it on eBay, it's an ancient circuit board with some scrap discrete parts on it.)
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1C per hour is "quick"? (it fact, that's the perfect method to make crystal clear ice.)
In fact their method of freezing pretty much ensures you can NEVER be unfrozen. 1C per hour means some pretty large ice crystal will be forming that will completely shred cell membranes.
Until they've successfully unfrozen someone, it's just a fad for the rich and/or stupid.
They don't give a single shit about the opinions of the people using their "products". I've not met a single person who likes the new maps interface. It's ugly, slow, covers the screen with lots of worthless crap, and makes the simplest of tasks all but impossible to do.
EVERY TIME they switch me back to the "new" bullshit, I cannot switch it back fast enough.
Except you had all the resources that come with being on Earth -- air, water, various critters to eat. And, most importantly, you knew, at the end of the day, you could always hike your ass back to civilization: you were not alone, certainly not to the extent a dozen people in a capsule on target for Mars will be.
With a sufficiently frugal existence, it's rather easy to "live off the grid." Humans did so for millions of years before there was a grid; it's simply inconvenient to do so today.
The "grid" doesn't store energy, it delivers it -- and nowhere near 100% efficiency either. Power is generated "on demand". While there are spots around the country/globe where utilities experiment with storing excess production -- flywheels, exotic batteries, thermal wells, etc., it is a very rare exception.
In reality, No. Restricted technology is supposed to be tracked all the way to the "end user", but given the nature of computer chips, this simply isn't going to happen. China simply won't be able to order processors by the pallet direct from Intel. This will not, in any way, stop them from getting the processors they want.
You seem to be under the mistaken impression these processors are made in the US. Well, THEY AREN'T. (Malaysia, Costa Rica, etc.)
True, but it will tell any compliant bot to fuck off. So no matter how many links there are to your stuff, it will not be indexed (and thus easily found.)
You do realize 30m is less than 100ft? That technology wouldn't work from the closet to my desk within my small office. (my office being the farthest from the closet) 30m is less than 1/3rd the max distance of standard ethernet. Ethernet isn't that expensive or difficult to wire. (and the "phone" is very likely to be cat5e in the first place -- cheap and abundant.)
You do know, you can get commercial service ("fiber") from anyone, right? You have to be worth the effort to get anyone to actually run the fiber in the first place, 'tho. (sometimes, even paying 100% of the costs isn't enough.)
Indeed it is. Good thing it doesn't dissolve in water very well. And what does has a hard time getting into your blood.
(what degrades copper pipe is corrosion.)
Yes, big ships can often be controlled somewhere other than the bridge/wheel house. That would commonly be the engine room.
No aircraft is that big. 'tho if hollywood is to be believed, one can take over a plane from the avionics bay. (one could certainly *crash* one, but actually flying it... not gonna happen. Plus, it's a very tiny space.)
That's not DSL, it's "Uverse". And it's not "cable" (i.e. coax), it's twisted-pair phone service.
In a nutshell, traditionally there are three types of wire carrying three different services: power (large braided steel/aluminium/copper), phone (24-32awg copper pair), and cable (coax) Thanks to modern technologies, all three can be used to carry data ("the internet".) Thanks to additional technologies, both phone and tv are now "data", and thus, can be fed over any of those common wires. However, the point remains -- You have ONE power utility, ONE phone utility, and ONE cable utility. You don't have 5 power companies, 19 telcos, and 17 cable companies spidering various cables all over creation to millions of consumers. In the "last mile", there is very little competition. If you want to sell me DSL, you WILL be paying AT&T, because they own the local lines.
Really? How many cable operators are available to your house? VERY few places in the US have more than one. You have "competition" in the form of technology -- one company per: cable, dsl, powerline -- but that's all. And it's very far from any meaningful motivator. Healthy competition means the barriers to entry are not 9000 miles high and dripping with ebola. Wanna build your own Super Awesome Cable Co? Sorry, prohibited by franchise agreement. Wanna run your own fiber/copper network? I hope you've budgeted many millions for lawyers, because you *will* be spending *years* in courts before you get to bury the first foot.
And before you bring up satellite and cellular... Satellite is the internet tech of the ninth level of hell; it's a serious punishment. Cellular is exceedingly expensive.
Well, their **EXTREME** incompetence isn't deliberate. (it's a function of greed and lazy)
Comcast isn't a "utility", and they don't give a shit who owns the property. For residential service, you'll get no "contract"; they can (and often do) drop the order. For business service, you can get an actual contract, but read it carefully as there will almost always be wiggle room to get them out of it.
He has NOTHING in writing. Comcast legal would roast him in seconds.
Or, perhaps, going to the prospective new home and looking for signs of cable access . If there's no coax cable running into (and to various places within) the house, odds are it's not serviceable. Looking on the poles and along streets for signs of Comcast infrastructure also isn't f'ing difficult. It's as if this guy did the entire transaction "over the internet".
CenturyLink's refusal to provide service should've been disclosed up-front. It's not like they ran out of ports in the time between his call(s) and moving in.
Ask a thousand random people who Tanner Foust is. If anything, they'll say "Top Gear host?"; they will be unaware of any of his championships. The areas in which he races are relatively unknown to most people -- hell, most motor sports are; the drivers in those series are even less known.
Not to mention the ~900lbs of their fuel pellets, and the facility the size of Hanford WA to enrich it to the point it can go boom!
Also, let's not delude people: no (petrochemical) plastic biodegrades. Nothing will eat the shit. It will chemically breakdown (albeit VERY slowly.) And it will photo-degrade, assuming sunlight can get to it and wasn't mixed with lots of UV stabilizer.
Right. And everyone is supposed to declare the actual value of the item crossing the border. I laugh every time I get something at work from outside the country; that SSL crypto card is "$100", and the "web server" it goes in "$2000". "Value for customs only. Not for sell" No shit!
And Cisco will enter the serial number in their portal -- btw, used to be, anyone could lookup any serial number, only a Cisco Employee would be able to see who owns it, 'tho. That search will show it was sold to IBM: "we sold it to IBM in 1992. Go ask them how restricted technology ended up on eBay."
(Shit happens. Remember the F-16 parts that ended up on eBay? The only way to know what they were, and that they were classified/restricted, was to look up the random-looking "part no.". (do you have the parts manifest for an F16?) To you, me, and apparently the junk recycler who put it on eBay, it's an ancient circuit board with some scrap discrete parts on it.)
More likely at customs. They're already "gubment", and it would be very easy for a package to pass through one of these uber-secret hack-points.