Facebook, MySpace, and other sites permit insertion of Asian and other characters. Slash should turn in it's geek/merit badge until non-latin chars are permitted. Is it REALLY THAT HARD?
Actually, it might be interesting to see a fusion of SlashFace out there. This current interface is getting kinda long in the tooth, almost from edge to root nerve ending...
I cannot for the life of me understand why Japan & Korea (pick your favorite historical reasons) would suck hard and mean and fast to mshaft. Ms dick must REALLY be soulful and full of 18-wheeler shifting fun and jerking and haunching on heels exciting. I would expect Japan and Korea to be WARY of lock-in, especially by a company like msoft.
But, to some extent, Korean sites i've visited render mostly OK, but if i have Korean friends log in in CyWorld, using my Mandriva laptop, they won't get far in some places. This is depressing. I wish i had enough DIRT on ms to make companies and countries change their minds, but the money or kickbacks or "marketing dollars" must REALLY be fucking that tempting, to go with a deviant W3C-breaking "standard" company.
But, i'll likely someday get burned just for saying this: NO, goddammit, it's NOT all about business decisions based on customer preferences. I have PLENTY of awareness of Koreans and Japanese using Apple laptops with Firefox. Hell, I can see 5-10 at a time on any given visit to Borders in SF. Too bad most of them are on windoze. But, i make sure people can see Mandriva running, and Opera opening up saved HTML pages (I don't, won't and can't surf wirelessly...)
I think you meant to specify "when you couple it with theIR Coca-Cola".
I have noticed that McDonald's Coca Cola is is modified to suit their menu. I later found out the various chains request such a thing. The Coke at Carl's and other places tastes different. The Dr. Pepper at Carl's SUCKS, and I think it's got something to do with competition. If the franchisee is in cahoots with the Coke distributor to modify the carbonation of a certain competing drink, the consumers frequenting THERE will not drink it next time. I LIKE Dr. Pepper, and prefer it to Coke in most cases, but when I go to Carl's I just quit the Dr. Pepper because it tastes so horrible that it's almost vomit-inducing. Really. Flat, sugary, bland, and gut-hollowing, to my senses. So, Dr. Pepper lost consumption tally from my not drinking it from machines. Canned sodas (Coke & Dr. Pepper) tend to induce more burping in me than the dispensary counterparts.
I even (around 2000, or 1999) TOLD the CJ manager (or shift manager?) there (I think it's the one either at in Milpitas at Montague/Able, IIRC, or one somewhere else), but he just shrugged it off, even tho i hinted that the coke guy might have been messing with the machine.
I wouldn't be surprised if the competition is that cutthroat that vendors and restaurants will for one reason or another OFFER a soda competitor's drink, but screw with the carbonation or sugar. Now, though, there are those bagged syrups, but they can still be mucked with, if someone knows how.
Let the assholes patent the sandwich-making MACHINERY! Assuming they design, spec, and own the plans, that is. But not the sandwich. What's next, Keebler patenting chip-filled cookies that are "dryer" than "Nestle" cookies? Del Monte patents canned string beans that are a skosh saltier than their competitor? Aunt Jemima sues Lego over pancakes? It's all just idiotic, and it's feeding lawyers, something that there are way too many of, thanks to litigious companies and con-sumers ABUSING capitalism and "free enterprise"...
Doesn't human reproduction "transform"? We may all *look* similar, but at the DNA level, we're different enough, and we have our pretty-much-own piggy-backing microsystem of fauna and parasites. We reproduce for selfish (power, money, property, ego) reasons, and making/selling products is not that far removed reproducing/manipulating offspring. Why not we all have customized patents for all our offspring?
Patenting a Big Mac, a Whopper, a Spicy (Crispy) Chicken Sandwich... a Po-Boy/Sub/... all STUPID. They not novel, are not difficult to reproduce, and while tied to a branding or an image, should be COPYRIGHT protected, not PATENT-PROTECTED.
Maybe lynching or genocide warfare should be used to put an end to patent trolls who try to hijack or patent something that has been ubiquitous and lazily un-defended after all these years.
If they get a patent for their menu of sandwiches, i will boycott them. Oh, and yes, i pretty much don't wear too many "branded" clothing. I scraped the name off of a pair of headphones when the silver name badge would not remain covered by a famed permanent marker applied in multiple layers. I pretty much refuse to wear clothing that some designer so desperately needs to have emblazoned with his/her name. If the design is awesome, word of mouth should suffice. If it doesn't, too bad. Cars, too. I like Hondas, but if i got around to ripping of the badge and epoxying the holes, i wouldn't FEEL bad. Besides, most people looking at or impressed by Hondas don't need a badge to identify a Honda. Hell, i even blacked out "Targus" on my backpack, partly to avert "Steal Me", and partly because I'm pissed that they killed off "Rack Gear" rack-fitted laptop bags...
I am NOT anti-capitalist. I just think some designers get too fucking carried away with jumbo 16" letter emblazoned across their wares. It turns my stomach. Others can do what they want, but...
Periodic "Prove It" prompts. When it's on, you have to every (user-set period; for enhanced security, periodicity not displayed) period, enter (user-set-number of various-password-levels) passwords, and if you miss a level (due to some interruption), it suspends/snapshots & shuts down. On reboot, if you enter a duress code ONCE or a wrong password (user set-number) a number of times, then it implodes.
If you have on it something worth DYING FOR, then a duress code would be useful. Just have subcutaneous or anal-activated cyanide capsule to avoid enduring torture, and, have no loved ones in your life who's be your torture proxy.
country in a "preemptive" or "expeditionary" type of manner, it should be the SCOURGE of the planet. If the US announces intent to do so and the rest of the world does not join in opposition, and it leads to the rest of the world eventually not holding/supporting the US markets, and the US implodes, that will be Karma. Well, that is what part of me thinks.
OTOH, when looking at how Carter and the other two envoys/delegates/quasi-inspectors were snubbed by Harare, and given the plight of South African nations, then, in light of what the US did to/for Iraq, i am kinda waiting to see whether the rest of the world will, without US leading or cajoling, take the initiative and just TELL Mugabe his power has run its course and the livelihoods of millions outweigh his personal interests. I am not willing (yet) to equate Mugabe to Saddam Hussein, but when you are starving, you have inflation in the millions, have no interest in nor are showing any interest in revitalizing the nation, then you should NOT be in power, NOT in control of that many people's destinies, and CERTAINLY not allowed to eat and dress well and enjoy a personal entourage of bodyguards while the other 98% of the population are treated like SHIT.
Karma knows her time, but she is being a total FUCKING BITCH unless it is the case that ALL these suffering people ARE living their descended-into-hells cycles there in Africa. Some might make that argument, but then it still applies to others on other continents, too. But, in reality, it's greedy powerful nations battling with greedy wannabe-powerful nations' tyrants/whatnots, and the will (or lack thereof) of many millions who stand around like it's all a big spectacle.
Maybe Karma is sitting by the sidelines twiddling her fingers waiting/biding her time for the REST of us to enter her fold.
Proably upwards of 60% of Google email account holders first log in to check email, but remain logged in while searching. Don't forget that they pore over email to target you with adverts. I rarely visually register them - especially since they seem lifted from my email, or on my own i find more interesting sites in other ways. AND... i ALMOST ALWAYS STRIP OUT the Google url prefix that would otherwise tip off downrtream sites that my visit spang forth from google. I especially remove them because i don't want my profiles littered with search engine preambles or prefixes unrelated to a site i may share with my readers.
at the risk of extruding or fleshing out the anaLOGy, we need enginers tn develop a microflush COM modes, and reduce the number of hiding places for ms, give them another set of quivering, dark matter tubes to deal with.
True, i have no right to "enforce" your not playing games til you develop brain clots, but if you leave a family behind, they shouldn't be on the public dole, either. So, hopefully, adults who DO play to the very end have contingencies in place, or they have families smart enough to "straighten out" such a "family member", or they have the cajones to abandon them.
Adult or child, an addiction is an addiction. It's likely worse if adults have them - if that adult has dependents. Adults with dependents (familial or work subordinates or weak people in their charge) MUST be held to a higher standard than willy-nilly/free-for-all adults with fewer who could be hurt by their individual acts/decisions.
Hell, i myself (when i had a home years ago, until the early/massive 2001 layoffs) would race home from Milpitas/Sunnyvale to be able get online and duke it out in CS/HL/HL2/SOF, and would play from midnight of 2130 of Friday until 1800 Sunday, damn near brain-dead. But, i kicked that stupid habit dead. When my discs got scratched, and i ran out of money to waste on ever-continuous upgrades, i was finally SAVED. Even as much as i miss Longbow Apache with all its bells and whistles, I am STILL glad i gave away (to Goodwill) my Saitek and other controllers. The fracjubg things were facilitating gaming dominating my life. Now, i devote my free hours to reading, and to doing drafting (Punch! ViaCAD)... but that is just my way of keeping games from dominating or derailing my life.
Other things DO have negative influences, but they won't be endless mind-numbing hours of gaming for me. If ever i design or oversee the building of a gaming environment, the biggest caveat -- after realism -- will be a user-enabled option for "time-out", even in the middle of a headed fight. Not just a timeout but a LOCKOUT if the system detects a continuous run of user input over some 9 or 15 hours. And, the game will collect the stats and forward to the National Institute of Health, and a few other places. THAT part will NOT be optional. Identity might be optional, unless it's Open Source, in which no registration would be required. But, play time statistics tracking would be non-negotiable.
OK, i'm GOING to be quite inflammatory here! What fucking sack of shit would intentionally mod my preceding comment as "off-topic"? And, have it STICK? (Exemplifies yet another continuing flaw in the slashdot immoderation system: negative or off-topic ratings should require a tie-breaker scoring, and not be touched by sysmods, but by forcing a nay-sayer of an obviously-relevant comment to be made NOT flaggable as offtopic.
With all the fucking social problems around the world, but particularly here in the US (i live here so i cannot too legitimately rant about social ills in another country where i do not live...), addictions to games IS a problem. Games need to be MODERATED, not played willy-nilly by uncontrolled kids and adults.
Considering how GTA and other violence-filled games came under relentless fire and forced to show ratings or be pulled from shelves of some conservative stores, i don't damn see how some idiot's "offtopic" rating can be left to stand. If psychologists and police see correlations in trends of teen violence, and if teachers learn of game-playing depriving students of sleep, then what the hell is wrong with the question "How long before police and health organizations begin to describe it as a "gateway addiction" like the police describe marijuana as a "gateway drug"?
Granted, the question can be taken either way, but it still stands. Open your mind, dammit!
MWO? Why would you think I'm proposing fusing human and mammoth and giving humans hairy legs? I'm proposing trying to get back to prosthetics or chemically-bathed donor parts or full-blown own-cloned parts.
But, i guess i could concede to your supposition, since "everybody has a price" might be in play here... might help out hollywood not have to own so many hair costumes...
These planes could be so quiet that foreign nations or even domestic animal rights groups might call for noise-makers to be added. Maybe those whistles for rural area dears might be affixed, but stronger so they don't fall off and kill people and animals and destroy property on the ground...
I thought there were jet packs for EVA work. It should be possible to sit in one and maneuver about for repairs. The tool kit could have been tethered to the EVA pack, instead of to the suit itself. Even so, why was there not any suction or (if the vehicle/satellite is not too electronically sensitive or the panels not too thin/fragile) magnetic tether to the module so it would not float away. Even better, two tethers would secure it and prevent flailing. The suction could be like the squeeze type so the astronaut can vary the suction force based on where the items are secured, since the structure/body may have varying door/adjacent area panel thicknesses...
Kunster said:
"Failure on Earth means you pick up the wrench and go back at it. Failure up there is a dead person on a mission with a multiples of billions of dollars pricetag hung off to the side."
One thing to consider is that while not ripping space suite, down on Earth, dropping a tool could result in a dead person, a crashed car, or multiple serious injuries leading to lawsuits. When I was in "The Nav", we ALWAYS were required to have ourselves tethered to the stanchion, or to a secure point on the hull or king post or bulkhead, have a safety observer, and also secure our tools. Tools were in a bucket which was secured to separate attach points, not on the person using them. Our staging chair ALSO was on its own secure point. That's why nice wrenches have holes, not just for whirling them around on a pinkie in an engine shop or under a wash bowl, but to secure them to some sturdy point.
I bet those tools were costly. You can't just go to Ace (Sears) Hardware, or Home Depot and replace them.
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Facebook, MySpace, and other sites permit insertion of Asian and other characters. Slash should turn in it's geek/merit badge until non-latin chars are permitted. Is it REALLY THAT HARD?
Actually, it might be interesting to see a fusion of SlashFace out there. This current interface is getting kinda long in the tooth, almost from edge to root nerve ending...
http://www.prx.org/pieces/30720
I think this is the same show i listened to this past weekend on NPR/RadioLab/...
It is very interesting. Ran about an hour.
Also, the stuff in our guts can identify each and every one of us probably as much as DNA does:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=97303406
RRUPTION.
I cannot for the life of me understand why Japan & Korea (pick your favorite historical reasons) would suck hard and mean and fast to mshaft. Ms dick must REALLY be soulful and full of 18-wheeler shifting fun and jerking and haunching on heels exciting. I would expect Japan and Korea to be WARY of lock-in, especially by a company like msoft.
But, to some extent, Korean sites i've visited render mostly OK, but if i have Korean friends log in in CyWorld, using my Mandriva laptop, they won't get far in some places. This is depressing. I wish i had enough DIRT on ms to make companies and countries change their minds, but the money or kickbacks or "marketing dollars" must REALLY be fucking that tempting, to go with a deviant W3C-breaking "standard" company.
But, i'll likely someday get burned just for saying this: NO, goddammit, it's NOT all about business decisions based on customer preferences. I have PLENTY of awareness of Koreans and Japanese using Apple laptops with Firefox. Hell, I can see 5-10 at a time on any given visit to Borders in SF. Too bad most of them are on windoze. But, i make sure people can see Mandriva running, and Opera opening up saved HTML pages (I don't, won't and can't surf wirelessly...)
"when you couple it with the Coca-Cola"
I think you meant to specify "when you couple it with theIR Coca-Cola".
I have noticed that McDonald's Coca Cola is is modified to suit their menu. I later found out the various chains request such a thing. The Coke at Carl's and other places tastes different. The Dr. Pepper at Carl's SUCKS, and I think it's got something to do with competition. If the franchisee is in cahoots with the Coke distributor to modify the carbonation of a certain competing drink, the consumers frequenting THERE will not drink it next time. I LIKE Dr. Pepper, and prefer it to Coke in most cases, but when I go to Carl's I just quit the Dr. Pepper because it tastes so horrible that it's almost vomit-inducing. Really. Flat, sugary, bland, and gut-hollowing, to my senses. So, Dr. Pepper lost consumption tally from my not drinking it from machines. Canned sodas (Coke & Dr. Pepper) tend to induce more burping in me than the dispensary counterparts.
I even (around 2000, or 1999) TOLD the CJ manager (or shift manager?) there (I think it's the one either at in Milpitas at Montague/Able, IIRC, or one somewhere else), but he just shrugged it off, even tho i hinted that the coke guy might have been messing with the machine.
I wouldn't be surprised if the competition is that cutthroat that vendors and restaurants will for one reason or another OFFER a soda competitor's drink, but screw with the carbonation or sugar. Now, though, there are those bagged syrups, but they can still be mucked with, if someone knows how.
Let the assholes patent the sandwich-making MACHINERY! Assuming they design, spec, and own the plans, that is. But not the sandwich. What's next, Keebler patenting chip-filled cookies that are "dryer" than "Nestle" cookies? Del Monte patents canned string beans that are a skosh saltier than their competitor? Aunt Jemima sues Lego over pancakes? It's all just idiotic, and it's feeding lawyers, something that there are way too many of, thanks to litigious companies and con-sumers ABUSING capitalism and "free enterprise"...
Doesn't human reproduction "transform"? We may all *look* similar, but at the DNA level, we're different enough, and we have our pretty-much-own piggy-backing microsystem of fauna and parasites. We reproduce for selfish (power, money, property, ego) reasons, and making/selling products is not that far removed reproducing/manipulating offspring. Why not we all have customized patents for all our offspring?
Patenting a Big Mac, a Whopper, a Spicy (Crispy) Chicken Sandwich... a Po-Boy/Sub/ ... all STUPID. They not novel, are not difficult to reproduce, and while tied to a branding or an image, should be COPYRIGHT protected, not PATENT-PROTECTED.
Maybe lynching or genocide warfare should be used to put an end to patent trolls who try to hijack or patent something that has been ubiquitous and lazily un-defended after all these years.
If they get a patent for their menu of sandwiches, i will boycott them. Oh, and yes, i pretty much don't wear too many "branded" clothing. I scraped the name off of a pair of headphones when the silver name badge would not remain covered by a famed permanent marker applied in multiple layers. I pretty much refuse to wear clothing that some designer so desperately needs to have emblazoned with his/her name. If the design is awesome, word of mouth should suffice. If it doesn't, too bad. Cars, too. I like Hondas, but if i got around to ripping of the badge and epoxying the holes, i wouldn't FEEL bad. Besides, most people looking at or impressed by Hondas don't need a badge to identify a Honda. Hell, i even blacked out "Targus" on my backpack, partly to avert "Steal Me", and partly because I'm pissed that they killed off "Rack Gear" rack-fitted laptop bags...
I am NOT anti-capitalist. I just think some designers get too fucking carried away with jumbo 16" letter emblazoned across their wares. It turns my stomach. Others can do what they want, but...
Periodic "Prove It" prompts. When it's on, you have to every (user-set period; for enhanced security, periodicity not displayed) period, enter (user-set-number of various-password-levels) passwords, and if you miss a level (due to some interruption), it suspends/snapshots & shuts down. On reboot, if you enter a duress code ONCE or a wrong password (user set-number) a number of times, then it implodes.
If you have on it something worth DYING FOR, then a duress code would be useful. Just have subcutaneous or anal-activated cyanide capsule to avoid enduring torture, and, have no loved ones in your life who's be your torture proxy.
because throwbacks to the 70's might have been hoping to stink/sweat-free do the boogey oogey oogey dancin' shoes...
As for gmulsera's
"What about oil, or grease or sticky substances in general?"
Compressed-air-blowing? Dry cleaners' chemicals (might be bad for the wearer who doesn't disrobe...) UV cleaning and gentle-fine-brushing?
pieces of ass, umm, fully-feeling, umm, screen-fulfilling asTEROIDS on display at one time... Talk about "getting your rocks off"....
country in a "preemptive" or "expeditionary" type of manner, it should be the SCOURGE of the planet. If the US announces intent to do so and the rest of the world does not join in opposition, and it leads to the rest of the world eventually not holding/supporting the US markets, and the US implodes, that will be Karma. Well, that is what part of me thinks.
OTOH, when looking at how Carter and the other two envoys/delegates/quasi-inspectors were snubbed by Harare, and given the plight of South African nations, then, in light of what the US did to/for Iraq, i am kinda waiting to see whether the rest of the world will, without US leading or cajoling, take the initiative and just TELL Mugabe his power has run its course and the livelihoods of millions outweigh his personal interests. I am not willing (yet) to equate Mugabe to Saddam Hussein, but when you are starving, you have inflation in the millions, have no interest in nor are showing any interest in revitalizing the nation, then you should NOT be in power, NOT in control of that many people's destinies, and CERTAINLY not allowed to eat and dress well and enjoy a personal entourage of bodyguards while the other 98% of the population are treated like SHIT.
Karma knows her time, but she is being a total FUCKING BITCH unless it is the case that ALL these suffering people ARE living their descended-into-hells cycles there in Africa. Some might make that argument, but then it still applies to others on other continents, too. But, in reality, it's greedy powerful nations battling with greedy wannabe-powerful nations' tyrants/whatnots, and the will (or lack thereof) of many millions who stand around like it's all a big spectacle.
Maybe Karma is sitting by the sidelines twiddling her fingers waiting/biding her time for the REST of us to enter her fold.
Proably upwards of 60% of Google email account holders first log in to check email, but remain logged in while searching. Don't forget that they pore over email to target you with adverts. I rarely visually register them - especially since they seem lifted from my email, or on my own i find more interesting sites in other ways. AND... i ALMOST ALWAYS STRIP OUT the Google url prefix that would otherwise tip off downrtream sites that my visit spang forth from google. I especially remove them because i don't want my profiles littered with search engine preambles or prefixes unrelated to a site i may share with my readers.
at the risk of extruding or fleshing out the anaLOGy, we need enginers tn develop a microflush COM modes, and reduce the number of hiding places for ms, give them another set of quivering, dark matter tubes to deal with.
WOE(s) be unto THEM!
What is scary as hell, though, is:
"Microsoft to aid in war on terror, builds software for DHS"
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081121-microsoft-to-aid-in-war-on-terror-builds-software-for-dhs.html
Wasn't there enough room to say that in the subject field?
True, i have no right to "enforce" your not playing games til you develop brain clots, but if you leave a family behind, they shouldn't be on the public dole, either. So, hopefully, adults who DO play to the very end have contingencies in place, or they have families smart enough to "straighten out" such a "family member", or they have the cajones to abandon them.
Adult or child, an addiction is an addiction. It's likely worse if adults have them - if that adult has dependents. Adults with dependents (familial or work subordinates or weak people in their charge) MUST be held to a higher standard than willy-nilly/free-for-all adults with fewer who could be hurt by their individual acts/decisions.
Hell, i myself (when i had a home years ago, until the early/massive 2001 layoffs) would race home from Milpitas/Sunnyvale to be able get online and duke it out in CS/HL/HL2/SOF, and would play from midnight of 2130 of Friday until 1800 Sunday, damn near brain-dead. But, i kicked that stupid habit dead. When my discs got scratched, and i ran out of money to waste on ever-continuous upgrades, i was finally SAVED. Even as much as i miss Longbow Apache with all its bells and whistles, I am STILL glad i gave away (to Goodwill) my Saitek and other controllers. The fracjubg things were facilitating gaming dominating my life. Now, i devote my free hours to reading, and to doing drafting (Punch! ViaCAD)... but that is just my way of keeping games from dominating or derailing my life.
Other things DO have negative influences, but they won't be endless mind-numbing hours of gaming for me. If ever i design or oversee the building of a gaming environment, the biggest caveat -- after realism -- will be a user-enabled option for "time-out", even in the middle of a headed fight. Not just a timeout but a LOCKOUT if the system detects a continuous run of user input over some 9 or 15 hours. And, the game will collect the stats and forward to the National Institute of Health, and a few other places. THAT part will NOT be optional. Identity might be optional, unless it's Open Source, in which no registration would be required. But, play time statistics tracking would be non-negotiable.
OK, i'm GOING to be quite inflammatory here! What fucking sack of shit would intentionally mod my preceding comment as "off-topic"? And, have it STICK? (Exemplifies yet another continuing flaw in the slashdot immoderation system: negative or off-topic ratings should require a tie-breaker scoring, and not be touched by sysmods, but by forcing a nay-sayer of an obviously-relevant comment to be made NOT flaggable as offtopic.
With all the fucking social problems around the world, but particularly here in the US (i live here so i cannot too legitimately rant about social ills in another country where i do not live...), addictions to games IS a problem. Games need to be MODERATED, not played willy-nilly by uncontrolled kids and adults.
Considering how GTA and other violence-filled games came under relentless fire and forced to show ratings or be pulled from shelves of some conservative stores, i don't damn see how some idiot's "offtopic" rating can be left to stand. If psychologists and police see correlations in trends of teen violence, and if teachers learn of game-playing depriving students of sleep, then what the hell is wrong with the question "How long before police and health organizations begin to describe it as a "gateway addiction" like the police describe marijuana as a "gateway drug"?
Granted, the question can be taken either way, but it still stands. Open your mind, dammit!
MWO? Why would you think I'm proposing fusing human and mammoth and giving humans hairy legs? I'm proposing trying to get back to prosthetics or chemically-bathed donor parts or full-blown own-cloned parts.
But, i guess i could concede to your supposition, since "everybody has a price" might be in play here... might help out hollywood not have to own so many hair costumes...
Why not? Apparently, HIS word is HER bond... LOL!
here.
But, then i thought, "Why not regenerate limbs for victims of accidents, assaults, and diabetes-related amputations?"
organizations begin to describe it as a "gateway addiction" like the police describe marijuana as a "gateway drug"?
But, a future obit might say, "Starbucks FounDERED In Many Places..."
(It seems Borders is having problems, so Seattle's Best in Borders may be losing a home in many places... FWIW)
wanted to "spin a web of deceit"...
SUCKED. Being desecra, umm, dessicated...
able to hear them coming.... Like, in California and Maryland:
Hybrids vs. pedestrians
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/uptospeed/2008/08/hybrids-vs-pede.html
Are Hybrid Cars A Danger To Pedestrians?
http://www.manufacturing.net/article.aspx?id=157148
These planes could be so quiet that foreign nations or even domestic animal rights groups might call for noise-makers to be added. Maybe those whistles for rural area dears might be affixed, but stronger so they don't fall off and kill people and animals and destroy property on the ground...
I thought there were jet packs for EVA work. It should be possible to sit in one and maneuver about for repairs. The tool kit could have been tethered to the EVA pack, instead of to the suit itself. Even so, why was there not any suction or (if the vehicle/satellite is not too electronically sensitive or the panels not too thin/fragile) magnetic tether to the module so it would not float away. Even better, two tethers would secure it and prevent flailing. The suction could be like the squeeze type so the astronaut can vary the suction force based on where the items are secured, since the structure/body may have varying door/adjacent area panel thicknesses...
Kunster said:
"Failure on Earth means you pick up the wrench and go back at it. Failure up there is a dead person on a mission with a multiples of billions of dollars pricetag hung off to the side."
One thing to consider is that while not ripping space suite, down on Earth, dropping a tool could result in a dead person, a crashed car, or multiple serious injuries leading to lawsuits. When I was in "The Nav", we ALWAYS were required to have ourselves tethered to the stanchion, or to a secure point on the hull or king post or bulkhead, have a safety observer, and also secure our tools. Tools were in a bucket which was secured to separate attach points, not on the person using them. Our staging chair ALSO was on its own secure point. That's why nice wrenches have holes, not just for whirling them around on a pinkie in an engine shop or under a wash bowl, but to secure them to some sturdy point.
I bet those tools were costly. You can't just go to Ace (Sears) Hardware, or Home Depot and replace them.