Just walk into any healthcare facility in the US. Panopticon ain't in it. We've got cameras monitoring cameras and locks protecting locked drawers.
In college I worked for a large aviation company as a summer intern in a high security facility. It was more relaxed than the little hospital I work in presently. I just wish they would let us review the feeds so I could figure out where I left my glasses.
I would think even the Russians (who generally have decent engineering) would have rigged an EXPLOSIVES DUMP so it would not just... explode. The US facilities I've seen (from a distance) have numerous design features to prevent that very thing since military explosives do have the tendency to.... explode.
Concrete separators, buried shelters, operational management to keep things separated. Pretty low tech stuff.
Aside from being an earth shattering kaboom it's a giant WTF.
Basic indications for thrombolysis (clot busting) in presumed stroke.
- Persons of a certain age (typically over 18, pediatric strokes have not been studied well and typically are due to a bleed from a congenital malformation) - There are blood pressure ranges over which it's felt that punching holes in the brain is too dangerous - There are certain medications (other drugs that work on the blood clotting system) that, when mixed with the clot buster make it too dangerous - You have to have a major stroke - the procedure doesn't work all that well and a bunch of complicated statistics and people yelling back and forth have made a guess with the benefit outweighs the risk. - TIME IS IMPORTANT - this is one of the big deals. Stroke is being popularized as a 'brain attack' (which sounds too Zombieish to me). That's a bit of overkill but the longer the symptoms have gone on, the less likely that busting up the clot is going to work. THIS IS WHERE THE SPIDER VENOM may come in - by protecting the brain while you do something (or not). Would presumably work in ischemic (formed by a blood clot) or hemorrhagic (formed by a bleeding blood vessel) kind of stroke. - You should get permission. Thrombolysis could make things better - or kill you. The improvement rate is only 25-40% (something less than thrombolysis for heart attacks). The big downside is that you convert an ischemic stroke into a thrombolytic stroke. Since blood in the brain can't leak out anywhere, you have to drill a hole in the brain which typically requires the presence of a neurosurgeon. Lots of places don't have neurosurgeons just wandering around. Yes, we've been trained in emergent craniotomy. I have this neat stainless steel drill that looks for all the world like an old carpenter drill but you don't want me to get it out of it's case. Very, very last ditch.
IF - and a big if - this pans out it could make stroke treatment much easier and more useful. It could also be used in any sort of insult to the neurologic system (trauma, etc.).. Cryosleep anyone?
The only thing new about these "drones" is that someone else did all the hard work already.
This *is* the issue. Got a grand (or somewhat less), you have a fully functional remote controlled whatever. You don't really have to RTFM (which, cruising the various forums, is completely obvious).
Same as anything electronic. The Apollo guidance system cost millions of dollars, was a large box and can be out thought by most singing greeting cards.
And this is the scenario brought out in TFA. An even easier and more likely plan is to buy a box of DJI Phantoms from somewhere in the world, set them up and buzz them around whatever ally shot the first one out of the sky. Until they figure out a more rational response, they can roll up a whole bunch of pricy Patriots.
Then you send in the clowns.
FWIW, I'm impressed that the Patriot can see the little plastic drone.
Three Drives for the King Bezos under Seattle's damp and dismal sky, Seven for the Mountain View Lords in their halls of glass., Nine Drives for the poor AC trying to create a RAID array that is doomed to die, One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne In the Land of Bellvue where the Shadows* lie. One Drive to rule them all, One Drive to find them (well, Bing, anyway) One Drive to bring them all and in the darkness bind them In the Land of Bellvue where the Shadows lie.
Don't have anything on their phones of any particular import. Nor do they care that the CIA is following their Candy Krush progress. It's just not something that occurs to many people.
OTOH, there ARE folks who, at the minimum, don't want their credit card details or chats with their surreptitous boyfriends splattered about. Those people need to step up to the plate.
The big problem is that security is a process that requires thinking, planning and continuous execution, i.e., a PITA.
The ability to do this with bulk lignin might be the key here. Presumably all you would have to do is chop things up to get more surface area (faster! faster would be better!). Most other biomass conversion processes need other Nasty Chemical pretreatments or dumping the stuff in vats of weird enzymes.
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They're going to 3D print it, what else?
That'll save big bucks.
Maybe if they bundled power supply capacitors in with the software.
But really? 3.1? Why not CP/M? At least it was command line.
PIP A: PUN: *.*
No, you need counseling.
Are they trying to win some kind of evil award of something?
Google got a lot of milage from "Don't Be Evil".
Maybe Comcast is trying for a shorter, edgier theme in view of more apocalyptic flavor of recent events : Be Evil.
Bad customer support?
Just walk into any healthcare facility in the US. Panopticon ain't in it. We've got cameras monitoring cameras and locks protecting locked drawers.
In college I worked for a large aviation company as a summer intern in a high security facility. It was more relaxed than the little hospital I work in presently. I just wish they would let us review the feeds so I could figure out where I left my glasses.
You insensitive clod.
I would think even the Russians (who generally have decent engineering) would have rigged an EXPLOSIVES DUMP so it would not just ... explode. The US facilities I've seen (from a distance) have numerous design features to prevent that very thing since military explosives do have the tendency to .... explode.
Concrete separators, buried shelters, operational management to keep things separated. Pretty low tech stuff.
Aside from being an earth shattering kaboom it's a giant WTF.
The job ain't done until Linux won't run
Basic indications for thrombolysis (clot busting) in presumed stroke.
- Persons of a certain age (typically over 18, pediatric strokes have not been studied well and typically are due to a bleed from a congenital malformation)
- There are blood pressure ranges over which it's felt that punching holes in the brain is too dangerous
- There are certain medications (other drugs that work on the blood clotting system) that, when mixed with the clot buster make it too dangerous
- You have to have a major stroke - the procedure doesn't work all that well and a bunch of complicated statistics and people yelling back and forth have made a guess with the benefit outweighs the risk.
- TIME IS IMPORTANT - this is one of the big deals. Stroke is being popularized as a 'brain attack' (which sounds too Zombieish to me). That's a bit of overkill but the longer the symptoms have gone on, the less likely that busting up the clot is going to work. THIS IS WHERE THE SPIDER VENOM may come in - by protecting the brain while you do something (or not). Would presumably work in ischemic (formed by a blood clot) or hemorrhagic (formed by a bleeding blood vessel) kind of stroke.
- You should get permission. Thrombolysis could make things better - or kill you. The improvement rate is only 25-40% (something less than thrombolysis for heart attacks). The big downside is that you convert an ischemic stroke into a thrombolytic stroke. Since blood in the brain can't leak out anywhere, you have to drill a hole in the brain which typically requires the presence of a neurosurgeon. Lots of places don't have neurosurgeons just wandering around. Yes, we've been trained in emergent craniotomy. I have this neat stainless steel drill that looks for all the world like an old carpenter drill but you don't want me to get it out of it's case. Very, very last ditch.
IF - and a big if - this pans out it could make stroke treatment much easier and more useful. It could also be used in any sort of insult to the neurologic system (trauma, etc.).. Cryosleep anyone?
But it's a big if...
The best way of kill yourself is carbon monoxide, for sure. Painless, you fall asleep and die.
I thought that was my sophomore organic chemistry class.
What is the terminal velocity of a 1 kg box of vitamin C?
Bad legislation is bad legislation no matter how lofty of it's purpose.
Well, the obvious answer to this question is to ask how much horsepower a shark can develop.
At least for one of these bad boys the answer is about 300, so there might some headroom for a laser or two.
I can't wait.
You just (mostly) described first class.
Actually, what you really described is a private jet.
TANSTAAFL.
But it's still crappy cell phone service. And some cell phones can't handle hearing aids well (although this is becoming less of an issue).
My hearing is perfectly fine (despite what my wife says), but if I need to really understand a conversation, I try to use a POTS line.
The only thing new about these "drones" is that someone else did all the hard work already.
This *is* the issue. Got a grand (or somewhat less), you have a fully functional remote controlled whatever. You don't really have to RTFM (which, cruising the various forums, is completely obvious).
Same as anything electronic. The Apollo guidance system cost millions of dollars, was a large box and can be out thought by most singing greeting cards.
Progress!
A seagull can crash mine. They're training eagles to scoop them up in various places.
I can see it now. Guys on horseback with falcons and other birds of prey on jesses. What is old is new.
Man, I want one of those. Think ATF would give me a permit for it? Second Amendment and all that.
I'm a nice guy....
Let's talk about the F-35 in this context, shall we....
And this is the scenario brought out in TFA. An even easier and more likely plan is to buy a box of DJI Phantoms from somewhere in the world, set them up and buzz them around whatever ally shot the first one out of the sky. Until they figure out a more rational response, they can roll up a whole bunch of pricy Patriots.
Then you send in the clowns.
FWIW, I'm impressed that the Patriot can see the little plastic drone.
Three Drives for the King Bezos under Seattle's damp and dismal sky,
Seven for the Mountain View Lords in their halls of glass.,
Nine Drives for the poor AC trying to create a RAID array that is doomed to die,
One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
In the Land of Bellvue where the Shadows* lie.
One Drive to rule them all, One Drive to find them (well, Bing, anyway)
One Drive to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
In the Land of Bellvue where the Shadows lie.
* Basically like Seattle weather
You want to listen in on my cell phone? You'll get a ring side auditory view of my back pocket. Only for the very desperate.
Don't have anything on their phones of any particular import. Nor do they care that the CIA is following their Candy Krush progress. It's just not something that occurs to many people.
OTOH, there ARE folks who, at the minimum, don't want their credit card details or chats with their surreptitous boyfriends splattered about. Those people need to step up to the plate.
The big problem is that security is a process that requires thinking, planning and continuous execution, i.e., a PITA.
The ability to do this with bulk lignin might be the key here. Presumably all you would have to do is chop things up to get more surface area (faster! faster would be better!). Most other biomass conversion processes need other Nasty Chemical pretreatments or dumping the stuff in vats of weird enzymes.
We'll see.....