Isn't this just an electronic document? Couldn't you just put a QR code on the containers that linked to a copy of all the paperwork online, or fire a trigger that good have been received? Once the code is scanned at its destination an email of the documents are sent to all parties that the good have been received. You also log the ip address of the device making the web request as proof that it was done on the dock (or receiving warehouse, maybe include a pin that has to be entered as well).
If you wanted every party to sign off, you could make those e-mails instead link to a document management system that as each email link is clicked you record the party has seen the document, and you give them a simple "accept"/"deny" links to click. I seem to remember Sharepoint having something like this. Why the need for blockchain? Seems like they created a convoluted way of using blockchain so they could say blockchain.
I got an email that took me to a web page where they offered to check all my username/password combinations. I'm happy to say I'm good, no matches found.
Just don't let it come up with "Pumpkin Spice", that makes everything taste like Starbucks Pumpkin Spice Latte!
As a challenge though I dare it to come up with something better than bacon, "Super Bacon" flavor! But sadly I'm expecting something like "Saddle Wood", a cross between eating an old horse saddle and a chunk of wood.
But as long as it doesn't achieve self consciousness and enslave us all I might just count it as a win.
Scary part is that its in almost everything you eat or drink! It has been directly tied to the death of many of people who consume too much or too little. It even effects animals with the same fatal consequences. But those greedy corporate overlords keep using it in everything!
Read up on it: https://en.wikipedia.org
Our founding fathers created a system to keep themselves and their cronies in power.
Again, you need a history lesson.
While yes, voting was limited to those who owned land (and later done so for oppression), it wasn't done out of keeping their cronies in power. Far from it, Washington himself didn't want the job and others back then didn't really do much. Looking at prior governments they saw that when everybody was given an equal vote they tended to vote someone in who promised "free beer for all". Now "free beer" sounds nice, but it isn't really free. Someone has to pay which usually meant the wealthy gave up a good share of their money so the poor could have a good party.
What the founding members wanted were people who were informed on the topics voting. Not just the people who saw the Jones with a new horse buggy and wanted a new one too. So obviously we needed to force the government into giving incentives so everyone could have one, usually by taxing, right? No, they wanted people who could see what foreign governments were doing, see how trade would benefit all, how libraries could help educate, fire departments could save property. They wanted people who would put others above themselves to lift everybody up, not just themselves. Those are the people they wanted voting.
Power and cronies didn't come until much later. Essentially being President was like being mayor of a small town back then. You meet and negotiate a few things but mainly you go about your daily life. However, now its all pomp and circumstance. A giant show for the masses to make them feel good (or bad) about themselves.
And yes, with any good intentions someone will find a way around it, so yes the south twisted it to suppress people. Sadly most people haven't learned from history and now our free beer is free medical and free internet. However just remember, those promising you get your free beer will be the same cronies you'll kick out in a few years when you want something else.
I know this is off topic but, the US elected him through the rules established during the founding of our nation so that the popular majority could not just dictate the rules everyone else must follow.
If you don't understand why those rules were chosen instead of pick our favorite person for four years, then you need to go back to history class and learn a little more about how governments prior to the US's worked; as the founder members did. Spoiler alert, the majority did some pretty awful things under the guise of improvement for all. Majority rule usually leads to mob mentality, which never fairs well in the end.
As far as the fox reference, I'd say he is more like a dodo bird; but I see where you were going.
Either way the current person of interest will be out of office at some point. The media will then either crucify or glorify the next person of interest for the next 4 years, and so on, and so on, and so on! Its what makes the world go around.
P.S. I'm still not sure hiring that hacker guy was the right move.
Please explain this? How does stopping the screening of passengers shut down all air traffic? You really think the person looking at you, your id, and your ticket for 30 seconds prevents anything? Or that the x-ray machine which shows metal objects as a black mass on a black background catches anything? Its theater, all a show for the amusements of. . . well I'm not sure who this amuses. You want safety, hire people trained to profile crowds and a few armed guards at the doors. It costs less and is way more effective than any TSA agent would be.
2. Hotels are usually under 1/2 filled. Also its not hard to staff appropriately. Third, not everyone staying at a hotel takes a plane, people do drive, take a bus, or train across country.
3. Secondary money, oh I see, you think that people who can barely afford to make it month to month are propping up the restaurant business. I'm not saying there won't be a decline, but its not the crash your thinking.
4. 66%, are your freaking serious? It takes tons of work just to get more than 50% to vote for something! Top that off with all it takes is one person to say "Hey, I'm adding a wall rider to that bill" and its dead. Back to square one. No you want legislation through, you need to compromise. I give you some of what you want, you give some of what I want. Now I've seen one side do this; the other side has dug in their heals and won't compromise on their principals (ie: its my candy, you can't have any; sorry thinking congress makes me think about my kids fighting over some gummy candy for some reason. Candy that was given to them for free mind you).
Book that flight for Disney? Really, I hate Disney (lets start there). Second, I can drive; anywhere in the country at any time. Third, how is it that your so sure people will stop going to hotels and out to eat, but the Disney vacation, nope can't cut back on that.
Plane travel is not the only means of going from one place to another. There are also trains (which suck because they have to stop at every place in between) and buses (again suck because of the stops and transfers). Planes suck as well (the theater, mandatory safety lectures, waiting to take off/land, waiting for luggage, ie), but at least the flight is faster so you spend less time in misery. I would advocated for a pain free experience; ie I show up, get my ticket, luggage checked, and a pill. I take that pill and about 5 minutes later I'm out. Next thing I know I'm at the destination airport and my luggage is there and I can go. I arrive at my destination with no hassle and well rested.
There are more factors than its just to expensive to raise a child. For example, life expectancy use to be below 40 years old. That meant that if you didn't have at least two children who lived to adult hood by then, chances are your family line died off. So by age 26 you had to find a partner, build a stable income and have at least two kid. Even then you were not guaranteed that one of them wouldn't die before reaching adult hood and mess up your plans.
The solution to that was the scatter shot approach. Have as many kids as you can when you find a partner, some will make it, some won't. But if at least two make it to adult hood you've staved off extinction for another 40 or so years. So it wasn't uncommon to have 4, 6, or 8 children just to ensure that some made it to adult hood.
This is exactly the mind set we still see in evolving nations right now, have lots of kids so that at least some survive. Really some see it as making sure their kids succeed, but really the end goal is that they live long enough to had kids of their own who "make it", and so on.
However with medical advances, there is a point at which you start to decrease the infant mortality rate so that 99+% of babies do make it to adult hood. You also improve health so that people now live to 80. People are still locked into the mind set that you need a large family to survive. Based on history we see that it takes generations before that changes. Just look at immigrants when they relocate to places with lower mortality rates. Usually the first immigrants stay the course, but children of immigrants have less children, and those children have even less children. Eventually yes, it could drop to couples having less than two children, at which point the population goes down.
Now given that, we are seeing rises in the standard of living across the world; mainly China and India. If the same pattern holds true as it has elsewhere, then I would expect the population to start decreasing naturally.
But, the cynic in me says that all it takes is one good anti-vax movement to wipe out half the population and short cut things along by a few hundred years.
Yep, makes total sense. We should put people who molest children in charge of stopping child molesters. We should put gang member in charge of stopping gang deaths. We should put people who award their friends large government contracts in charge of determining who gets federal assistance.
After all they know exactly how its done and can best prevent others, right? They would never abuse that power and/or give themselves loop holes!
Yes, these are extremes, but you get the point. And yes, there are counter examples; like putting a hacker in charge of you security (I'd still watch them like a hawk).
Giant flaws in your logic.
1. The "wealthy" already have personal jets and don't need to go through TSA.
2. Hotels still have people traveling by car, and train. So they would stay open.
3. Restaurants still have regulars. Families do like going out to eat once in a while.
4. The wealthy already complain to Trump, he just doesn't care.
Also the TSA really isn't needed, airports ran just fine before them, and would run fine without them. Apparently we just needed to be entertained while we waited so the "TSA Players" play company was funded to fill that need. Personally I'd just rather have some military personal with assault rifles on the flight sitting in the back. Clear sign that if you want to start some trouble on a flight, they will finish it.
There was a simple solution to congress though. Tell Trump he needs to cut 2x as much from the budget as he's requesting, or he needs to approve the same amount to the support of the arts. That is what congress is suppose to do, negotiate so that both sides win.
Of course negotiating won't fly either. Why? The issue is not about the money, or keeping people out, or any one of the many reasons cited by either side. The reason is they don't want him delivering on a campaign promise, even if its a token act. The current action out of congress is just to simply Resist. Resist everything! Don't think about it, just Resist. Why are we Resiting again? Never mind, RESIST!
I'm just hoping this goes on long enough that everybody see's the candidates for what they are and votes everybody out. But I guess that might go a long way to draining the swamp I keep hearing about. So just keep resisting and get kicked out allowing the other side to win, or negotiate and be seen as traitors and get kicked out.
I wasn't outraged before. But after reading that you weren't outraged either, I'm now outraged that you weren't outraged! But I see that you did become outraged, so I'm all better now.
Sounds like a neat idea. You know a portable device that people would have that could take pictures in 3-D and show them back to the user without needing special glasses.
Oh and could you make it a game console as well, with tactile buttons, a replaceable battery, a SD memory slot, and a R-4 card slot?
Working at a University in California we were told that we couldn't create any system that would show the location or allow someone to know the location of a student because that student could be under age and it was illegal to track them or allow them to be tracked. For example, we couldn't show a list of students in a class because someone would know Sally was in Econ 101-1 which is held in Building A between the hours of 1:00 and 2:00 every Monday/Wednesday/Friday. We could show the random student ID, but not a name. This came up because I worked on a system that allowed students to rank professors from whom they were taking classes, but we couldn't student names on the reviews because of this restriction. I suspect this is the same reason schools also wouldn't tell a parent oh Billy, he's in room 12 right now. Go on ahead and get him. No, instead they send an office staff to bring him back to the office and you pick your child up there. (*disclaimer, I have no knowledge of where Sally or Billy really are.)
But in this modern age almost every student has a cell phone with GPS that tracks them down to within a few meters. And I'm sure all of that data is being broadcast to the world to see, you know to prevent terrorists and keep children safe.
I understand its an important issue, but tech related it is not. Please stop posting these stories, or create a way we can vote down stories that are off topic.
I was thinking of how to do this with Metal, and Carbon Fiber.
Depends on how big of a metal part you need and what strength. If its small, there are 3D metal printers which start at about $100,000. If its larger metal parts you need, you could get a wax printer then send the mold off to be cast.
If its carbon fiber parts your after, the wax approach might work as well. Cast the inverse mold of what you need, then layer carbon fiber sheets over that. Then melt away the mold.
I remember reading somewhere that car manufactures are already using metal printers. It allows them to mock up things up in days instead of months. The parts aren't as strong, but it can give the design team and engineering team a good approximation of what the final manufactured part will look and perform like.
Bosses sometimes ask this to see what the bottleneck is. Sometimes you cite things they can control; like I would need about $1Mil to get the equipment for just testing that idea, or I would need at least a team of 12 people for a year to finalize the plan. Those are things a boss can effect if they see the project as worthwhile to them.
Now if you come back and say, if we launched today all the supplies and a person. To get them there by that date they would need to travel at a speed that would kill them. The earliest we could do it without killing that person would be 2025 and even that would be putting the person at risk of dying. Then the boss knows its not a resource problem.
Don't go into technical details. Just clarify what their goals are and why one or more of those goals can not be achieved (ie the person would be dead on arrival due to the speed needed to reach mars by 2020). You talk details, their eyes glaze over and they stop listening. Sometime a "sure we can, if you don't care if they are alive when they get there", is enough.
The program takes about 48 seconds to work out a hidden scene from a digital image, but the researchers believe it could be sped up with a faster computer.
Yes a faster computer "could" speed up the process. Great reporting there!
Thats like saying a faster car could get me to work sooner. It might, but I suspect the cars in front of me and all the lights would prevent me from fully utilizing the speed of any car. However, re-evaluating the route I take, or using a bicycle might utilize the current car I have much better than getting a faster one.
Whenever writing something critical, first make it work. Then make it so that anyone can understand it in detail. Then profile and find the bottlenecks. Finally remove or mitigate those bottlenecks as much as possible so that it still works and can be understood. A faster CPU should be the last resort.
I don't know, is the entire point of USB that it requires plugs that have to be turned 180 degrees three times to plug in correctly? How are you going to replicate that wirelessly?
Simple, you have to flip the phone over a few times before it connects. Bonus points if you have to have it aligned within a few degrees of the exact same 3D plane before it connects. Or if its aligned incorrectly 1s turn into 0s and vice versa.
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Isn't this just an electronic document? Couldn't you just put a QR code on the containers that linked to a copy of all the paperwork online, or fire a trigger that good have been received? Once the code is scanned at its destination an email of the documents are sent to all parties that the good have been received. You also log the ip address of the device making the web request as proof that it was done on the dock (or receiving warehouse, maybe include a pin that has to be entered as well).
If you wanted every party to sign off, you could make those e-mails instead link to a document management system that as each email link is clicked you record the party has seen the document, and you give them a simple "accept"/"deny" links to click. I seem to remember Sharepoint having something like this. Why the need for blockchain? Seems like they created a convoluted way of using blockchain so they could say blockchain.
I got an email that took me to a web page where they offered to check all my username/password combinations. I'm happy to say I'm good, no matches found.
Just don't let it come up with "Pumpkin Spice", that makes everything taste like Starbucks Pumpkin Spice Latte!
As a challenge though I dare it to come up with something better than bacon, "Super Bacon" flavor! But sadly I'm expecting something like "Saddle Wood", a cross between eating an old horse saddle and a chunk of wood.
But as long as it doesn't achieve self consciousness and enslave us all I might just count it as a win.
no ingredient "sounds nice"
I know, just listen to this one:
hydroxylic acid
Scary part is that its in almost everything you eat or drink! It has been directly tied to the death of many of people who consume too much or too little. It even effects animals with the same fatal consequences. But those greedy corporate overlords keep using it in everything!
Read up on it: https://en.wikipedia.org
I want what ever medication your on!
Our founding fathers created a system to keep themselves and their cronies in power.
Again, you need a history lesson.
While yes, voting was limited to those who owned land (and later done so for oppression), it wasn't done out of keeping their cronies in power. Far from it, Washington himself didn't want the job and others back then didn't really do much. Looking at prior governments they saw that when everybody was given an equal vote they tended to vote someone in who promised "free beer for all". Now "free beer" sounds nice, but it isn't really free. Someone has to pay which usually meant the wealthy gave up a good share of their money so the poor could have a good party.
What the founding members wanted were people who were informed on the topics voting. Not just the people who saw the Jones with a new horse buggy and wanted a new one too. So obviously we needed to force the government into giving incentives so everyone could have one, usually by taxing, right? No, they wanted people who could see what foreign governments were doing, see how trade would benefit all, how libraries could help educate, fire departments could save property. They wanted people who would put others above themselves to lift everybody up, not just themselves. Those are the people they wanted voting. Power and cronies didn't come until much later. Essentially being President was like being mayor of a small town back then. You meet and negotiate a few things but mainly you go about your daily life. However, now its all pomp and circumstance. A giant show for the masses to make them feel good (or bad) about themselves.
And yes, with any good intentions someone will find a way around it, so yes the south twisted it to suppress people. Sadly most people haven't learned from history and now our free beer is free medical and free internet. However just remember, those promising you get your free beer will be the same cronies you'll kick out in a few years when you want something else.
Sorry for going off the original topic.
Relax. The US (electoral college) elected Trump.
Wrong.
I know this is off topic but, the US elected him through the rules established during the founding of our nation so that the popular majority could not just dictate the rules everyone else must follow.
If you don't understand why those rules were chosen instead of pick our favorite person for four years, then you need to go back to history class and learn a little more about how governments prior to the US's worked; as the founder members did. Spoiler alert, the majority did some pretty awful things under the guise of improvement for all. Majority rule usually leads to mob mentality, which never fairs well in the end.
As far as the fox reference, I'd say he is more like a dodo bird; but I see where you were going.
Either way the current person of interest will be out of office at some point. The media will then either crucify or glorify the next person of interest for the next 4 years, and so on, and so on, and so on! Its what makes the world go around.
P.S. I'm still not sure hiring that hacker guy was the right move.
1. goes by by once the Air Traffic shuts down.
Please explain this? How does stopping the screening of passengers shut down all air traffic? You really think the person looking at you, your id, and your ticket for 30 seconds prevents anything? Or that the x-ray machine which shows metal objects as a black mass on a black background catches anything? Its theater, all a show for the amusements of. . . well I'm not sure who this amuses. You want safety, hire people trained to profile crowds and a few armed guards at the doors. It costs less and is way more effective than any TSA agent would be.
2. Hotels are usually under 1/2 filled. Also its not hard to staff appropriately. Third, not everyone staying at a hotel takes a plane, people do drive, take a bus, or train across country.
3. Secondary money, oh I see, you think that people who can barely afford to make it month to month are propping up the restaurant business. I'm not saying there won't be a decline, but its not the crash your thinking.
4. 66%, are your freaking serious? It takes tons of work just to get more than 50% to vote for something! Top that off with all it takes is one person to say "Hey, I'm adding a wall rider to that bill" and its dead. Back to square one. No you want legislation through, you need to compromise. I give you some of what you want, you give some of what I want. Now I've seen one side do this; the other side has dug in their heals and won't compromise on their principals (ie: its my candy, you can't have any; sorry thinking congress makes me think about my kids fighting over some gummy candy for some reason. Candy that was given to them for free mind you).
Book that flight for Disney? Really, I hate Disney (lets start there). Second, I can drive; anywhere in the country at any time. Third, how is it that your so sure people will stop going to hotels and out to eat, but the Disney vacation, nope can't cut back on that.
Plane travel is not the only means of going from one place to another. There are also trains (which suck because they have to stop at every place in between) and buses (again suck because of the stops and transfers). Planes suck as well (the theater, mandatory safety lectures, waiting to take off/land, waiting for luggage, ie), but at least the flight is faster so you spend less time in misery. I would advocated for a pain free experience; ie I show up, get my ticket, luggage checked, and a pill. I take that pill and about 5 minutes later I'm out. Next thing I know I'm at the destination airport and my luggage is there and I can go. I arrive at my destination with no hassle and well rested.
There are more factors than its just to expensive to raise a child. For example, life expectancy use to be below 40 years old. That meant that if you didn't have at least two children who lived to adult hood by then, chances are your family line died off. So by age 26 you had to find a partner, build a stable income and have at least two kid. Even then you were not guaranteed that one of them wouldn't die before reaching adult hood and mess up your plans.
The solution to that was the scatter shot approach. Have as many kids as you can when you find a partner, some will make it, some won't. But if at least two make it to adult hood you've staved off extinction for another 40 or so years. So it wasn't uncommon to have 4, 6, or 8 children just to ensure that some made it to adult hood.
This is exactly the mind set we still see in evolving nations right now, have lots of kids so that at least some survive. Really some see it as making sure their kids succeed, but really the end goal is that they live long enough to had kids of their own who "make it", and so on.
However with medical advances, there is a point at which you start to decrease the infant mortality rate so that 99+% of babies do make it to adult hood. You also improve health so that people now live to 80. People are still locked into the mind set that you need a large family to survive. Based on history we see that it takes generations before that changes. Just look at immigrants when they relocate to places with lower mortality rates. Usually the first immigrants stay the course, but children of immigrants have less children, and those children have even less children. Eventually yes, it could drop to couples having less than two children, at which point the population goes down.
Now given that, we are seeing rises in the standard of living across the world; mainly China and India. If the same pattern holds true as it has elsewhere, then I would expect the population to start decreasing naturally.
But, the cynic in me says that all it takes is one good anti-vax movement to wipe out half the population and short cut things along by a few hundred years.
Yep, makes total sense. We should put people who molest children in charge of stopping child molesters. We should put gang member in charge of stopping gang deaths. We should put people who award their friends large government contracts in charge of determining who gets federal assistance. After all they know exactly how its done and can best prevent others, right? They would never abuse that power and/or give themselves loop holes!
Yes, these are extremes, but you get the point. And yes, there are counter examples; like putting a hacker in charge of you security (I'd still watch them like a hawk).
"The remote server used by these apps is encoded with BASE64 twice in the code," Wu wrote.
Those tricky devils!
Giant flaws in your logic.
1. The "wealthy" already have personal jets and don't need to go through TSA.
2. Hotels still have people traveling by car, and train. So they would stay open.
3. Restaurants still have regulars. Families do like going out to eat once in a while.
4. The wealthy already complain to Trump, he just doesn't care.
Also the TSA really isn't needed, airports ran just fine before them, and would run fine without them. Apparently we just needed to be entertained while we waited so the "TSA Players" play company was funded to fill that need. Personally I'd just rather have some military personal with assault rifles on the flight sitting in the back. Clear sign that if you want to start some trouble on a flight, they will finish it.
There was a simple solution to congress though. Tell Trump he needs to cut 2x as much from the budget as he's requesting, or he needs to approve the same amount to the support of the arts. That is what congress is suppose to do, negotiate so that both sides win.
Of course negotiating won't fly either. Why? The issue is not about the money, or keeping people out, or any one of the many reasons cited by either side. The reason is they don't want him delivering on a campaign promise, even if its a token act. The current action out of congress is just to simply Resist. Resist everything! Don't think about it, just Resist. Why are we Resiting again? Never mind, RESIST!
I'm just hoping this goes on long enough that everybody see's the candidates for what they are and votes everybody out. But I guess that might go a long way to draining the swamp I keep hearing about. So just keep resisting and get kicked out allowing the other side to win, or negotiate and be seen as traitors and get kicked out.
P.S. don't forget to Resist!
They have every right to show up and ask to be let in.
And I have every right to say no.
My 45, AR, Winchester, and shotgun do not fit under my pillow. I'm also not the one sleeping in fear; my congress man should be though.
I wasn't outraged before. But after reading that you weren't outraged either, I'm now outraged that you weren't outraged! But I see that you did become outraged, so I'm all better now.
p.s. the dildo thing was TMI, please seek help.
Sounds like a neat idea. You know a portable device that people would have that could take pictures in 3-D and show them back to the user without needing special glasses.
Oh and could you make it a game console as well, with tactile buttons, a replaceable battery, a SD memory slot, and a R-4 card slot?
Or you could try talking and interacting with people in real life.
Whoooo, slow down there. Lets not be too hasty! Maybe the service will be back up by then?
Sheesh, talk to people, like that would ever happen.
I wonder how that goes with privacy laws.
Working at a University in California we were told that we couldn't create any system that would show the location or allow someone to know the location of a student because that student could be under age and it was illegal to track them or allow them to be tracked. For example, we couldn't show a list of students in a class because someone would know Sally was in Econ 101-1 which is held in Building A between the hours of 1:00 and 2:00 every Monday/Wednesday/Friday. We could show the random student ID, but not a name. This came up because I worked on a system that allowed students to rank professors from whom they were taking classes, but we couldn't student names on the reviews because of this restriction. I suspect this is the same reason schools also wouldn't tell a parent oh Billy, he's in room 12 right now. Go on ahead and get him. No, instead they send an office staff to bring him back to the office and you pick your child up there. (*disclaimer, I have no knowledge of where Sally or Billy really are.)
But in this modern age almost every student has a cell phone with GPS that tracks them down to within a few meters. And I'm sure all of that data is being broadcast to the world to see, you know to prevent terrorists and keep children safe.
If your antilock brakes pause, you car is garbage! Or it will be a few short seconds later.
The big question I have is will new dashboard have a "Null Pointer Exception" warning light?
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In recent years it seems the site owners want to bury this and instead are bent on turning this into a national enquirer.
How is this tech news again?
I understand its an important issue, but tech related it is not. Please stop posting these stories, or create a way we can vote down stories that are off topic.
I was thinking of how to do this with Metal, and Carbon Fiber.
Depends on how big of a metal part you need and what strength. If its small, there are 3D metal printers which start at about $100,000. If its larger metal parts you need, you could get a wax printer then send the mold off to be cast.
If its carbon fiber parts your after, the wax approach might work as well. Cast the inverse mold of what you need, then layer carbon fiber sheets over that. Then melt away the mold.
I remember reading somewhere that car manufactures are already using metal printers. It allows them to mock up things up in days instead of months. The parts aren't as strong, but it can give the design team and engineering team a good approximation of what the final manufactured part will look and perform like.
Exactly.
Bosses sometimes ask this to see what the bottleneck is. Sometimes you cite things they can control; like I would need about $1Mil to get the equipment for just testing that idea, or I would need at least a team of 12 people for a year to finalize the plan. Those are things a boss can effect if they see the project as worthwhile to them.
Now if you come back and say, if we launched today all the supplies and a person. To get them there by that date they would need to travel at a speed that would kill them. The earliest we could do it without killing that person would be 2025 and even that would be putting the person at risk of dying. Then the boss knows its not a resource problem.
Don't go into technical details. Just clarify what their goals are and why one or more of those goals can not be achieved (ie the person would be dead on arrival due to the speed needed to reach mars by 2020). You talk details, their eyes glaze over and they stop listening. Sometime a "sure we can, if you don't care if they are alive when they get there", is enough.
The program takes about 48 seconds to work out a hidden scene from a digital image, but the researchers believe it could be sped up with a faster computer.
Yes a faster computer "could" speed up the process. Great reporting there!
Thats like saying a faster car could get me to work sooner. It might, but I suspect the cars in front of me and all the lights would prevent me from fully utilizing the speed of any car. However, re-evaluating the route I take, or using a bicycle might utilize the current car I have much better than getting a faster one.
Whenever writing something critical, first make it work. Then make it so that anyone can understand it in detail. Then profile and find the bottlenecks. Finally remove or mitigate those bottlenecks as much as possible so that it still works and can be understood. A faster CPU should be the last resort.
I don't know, is the entire point of USB that it requires plugs that have to be turned 180 degrees three times to plug in correctly? How are you going to replicate that wirelessly?
Simple, you have to flip the phone over a few times before it connects. Bonus points if you have to have it aligned within a few degrees of the exact same 3D plane before it connects. Or if its aligned incorrectly 1s turn into 0s and vice versa.