I'd expect "gravity free" flames to be more chaotic / less predictable... I wonder how many times they'll have to burn the capsule before they get a representative sample.
If I ever get time to read again... the thing about "online sharing" is that it is so new that people don't have much experience with how it works. Most small town residents know that if you show up to the local WalMart with skank of the week hanging on your arm, word will spread - but these same folks will post drunk selfies from places that normally aren't very exposed to the public...
Give it 20 years, people will learn. Meanwhile, repuationmenders.com has a booming service business.
Or, we're just getting more of a "small town lifestyle" in the big cities now. One major complaint I've heard from small towners is that everybody knows your business... well, with data trails, that is true all over now, not just in Mayberry RFD sized communities.
That $10K limit was set a very long time ago, when $10K might have bought a house in the burbs. It keeps getting more intrusive as time goes on, but technology keeps making it easier to do the transaction checking and logging.
The neighborhood I lived in in Miami from 1990 to 2000 already had water in the streets at the highest tides of the month... it wasn't exactly rare for that, either.
It takes time to be sure of the cause, sure that there are related items that need to be checked, sure you're not going to get fired for bringing it up...
In the end, our leaders are politicians - they do the things that their constituency will put up with. If this includes being KKK grand wizards and rounding up persons of foreign descent into concentration camps, it only does so because the majority of people put up with it and continued electing the officials that did that.
He's lucky there wasn't an emergency and that his device did not interfere with a 911 call.
I guess I was just lucky to survive the dark ages before mobiles existed and someone would have had to get the train to stop in the next station before calling for help. Yes this guy was being an idiot but lets not blow things out of proportion: life was indeed possible before the cell phone was invented and it was not significantly more dangerous.
I agree that the whole "lucky there wasn't an emergency" tack is blowing things out of proportion, but while life was possible before cell phones, it was significantly more challenging. Response times are down, outcomes are improved, and most services run better since cell phones have become ubiquitous. There's also the fact that the presence of cell phones has led to a deterioration of other infrastructure, such as pay phones and some public services radios (people who might have carried a PS radio in the past now just use their cell-phones instead.) Also, millions of brains have developed with cell phone dependency, suddenly take the cell phone away and they will not adapt immediately.
8 oz of fuel, plus 16 oz of engine to burn it in, plus another 16 oz of generator and capacitor to create energy flexible enough to stabilize a quad (electricity). A straight mechanical prop drive and control system for stabilization of a quad would be rather hellish to build and maintain.
I'm not thinking that exhaust gas is much of an issue in a quadcopter downdraft... but the minimum size and weight of a gas engine, combined with the need for electric motor speed control to stabilize the craft, would mean a very large quadcopter to start gaining efficiency from gasoline as fuel as compared to Lithium Ion cells.
When I see the article summary, I see satellites talking to "real" aircraft and UAVs that fly above the clouds, so the optical link should work quite well most of the time.
Optical is much easier to make directional than RF, and also greatly increases the privacy of the link, it's much harder to position an effective eavesdropper. Finally, the ultimate bit-rates available in optical are higher than in RF, basically due to the shorter wavelength. None of these are of much concern to a hobbyist UAV operator, but they can be significant for operations with bigger budgets and more people involved.
The last minute cancellation (and we've experienced this on other networks, not just AirBnB) would be pretty easily revealed in stats:
1) How many vendor initiated cancellations?
2) How close to time of arrival?
3) How pissed were the cancelled customers?
Of course, you'll expect most cancelled customers to be pissed, but if a vendor initiates more than one cancellation per 2 or 3 years or 300 rentals, I'd start to question their sincerity regarding early reservations on high demand days. If the cancelled customers aren't too upset, that's an indication that they didn't get burned too badly by the cancellation and maybe it's just a fluke.
What AirBnB really needs is a Trust network - if they implement it on top of a blockchain, then they'll need a blockchain maintenance infrastructure, but either way, they need to establish a Trust network.
If his plan was to "get one more bag" and retire to Belize, he might have pulled it off... use change counting machines to get enough bills to buy a truck big enough to haul the loot, get through customs with 4 tons of quarters, home free.
The radiation does is meh, unless you're in the over 100mSv crowd, what's impressive to me is that 32,000 people were engaged working on this reactor - that's a decent sized city.
Also, this only breaks RSA style encryption. Good old fashioned shared key systems are immune to this, and many modern systems only use RSA-type encryption for the initial sharing of a secret key to both parties.
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I'd expect "gravity free" flames to be more chaotic / less predictable... I wonder how many times they'll have to burn the capsule before they get a representative sample.
If I ever get time to read again... the thing about "online sharing" is that it is so new that people don't have much experience with how it works. Most small town residents know that if you show up to the local WalMart with skank of the week hanging on your arm, word will spread - but these same folks will post drunk selfies from places that normally aren't very exposed to the public...
Give it 20 years, people will learn. Meanwhile, repuationmenders.com has a booming service business.
Or, we're just getting more of a "small town lifestyle" in the big cities now. One major complaint I've heard from small towners is that everybody knows your business... well, with data trails, that is true all over now, not just in Mayberry RFD sized communities.
That $10K limit was set a very long time ago, when $10K might have bought a house in the burbs. It keeps getting more intrusive as time goes on, but technology keeps making it easier to do the transaction checking and logging.
The neighborhood I lived in in Miami from 1990 to 2000 already had water in the streets at the highest tides of the month... it wasn't exactly rare for that, either.
It takes time to be sure of the cause, sure that there are related items that need to be checked, sure you're not going to get fired for bringing it up...
In the end, our leaders are politicians - they do the things that their constituency will put up with. If this includes being KKK grand wizards and rounding up persons of foreign descent into concentration camps, it only does so because the majority of people put up with it and continued electing the officials that did that.
He's lucky there wasn't an emergency and that his device did not interfere with a 911 call.
I guess I was just lucky to survive the dark ages before mobiles existed and someone would have had to get the train to stop in the next station before calling for help. Yes this guy was being an idiot but lets not blow things out of proportion: life was indeed possible before the cell phone was invented and it was not significantly more dangerous.
I agree that the whole "lucky there wasn't an emergency" tack is blowing things out of proportion, but while life was possible before cell phones, it was significantly more challenging. Response times are down, outcomes are improved, and most services run better since cell phones have become ubiquitous. There's also the fact that the presence of cell phones has led to a deterioration of other infrastructure, such as pay phones and some public services radios (people who might have carried a PS radio in the past now just use their cell-phones instead.) Also, millions of brains have developed with cell phone dependency, suddenly take the cell phone away and they will not adapt immediately.
8 oz of fuel, plus 16 oz of engine to burn it in, plus another 16 oz of generator and capacitor to create energy flexible enough to stabilize a quad (electricity). A straight mechanical prop drive and control system for stabilization of a quad would be rather hellish to build and maintain.
I'm not thinking that exhaust gas is much of an issue in a quadcopter downdraft... but the minimum size and weight of a gas engine, combined with the need for electric motor speed control to stabilize the craft, would mean a very large quadcopter to start gaining efficiency from gasoline as fuel as compared to Lithium Ion cells.
Visible lasers that can dazzle or blind the (mostly redundant) human pilots: bad.
Non-visible lasers carrying data down from satellites that are not generally in the pilot's field of view: o.k.
When I see the article summary, I see satellites talking to "real" aircraft and UAVs that fly above the clouds, so the optical link should work quite well most of the time.
Optical is much easier to make directional than RF, and also greatly increases the privacy of the link, it's much harder to position an effective eavesdropper. Finally, the ultimate bit-rates available in optical are higher than in RF, basically due to the shorter wavelength. None of these are of much concern to a hobbyist UAV operator, but they can be significant for operations with bigger budgets and more people involved.
The last minute cancellation (and we've experienced this on other networks, not just AirBnB) would be pretty easily revealed in stats:
1) How many vendor initiated cancellations?
2) How close to time of arrival?
3) How pissed were the cancelled customers?
Of course, you'll expect most cancelled customers to be pissed, but if a vendor initiates more than one cancellation per 2 or 3 years or 300 rentals, I'd start to question their sincerity regarding early reservations on high demand days. If the cancelled customers aren't too upset, that's an indication that they didn't get burned too badly by the cancellation and maybe it's just a fluke.
What AirBnB really needs is a Trust network - if they implement it on top of a blockchain, then they'll need a blockchain maintenance infrastructure, but either way, they need to establish a Trust network.
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If his plan was to "get one more bag" and retire to Belize, he might have pulled it off... use change counting machines to get enough bills to buy a truck big enough to haul the loot, get through customs with 4 tons of quarters, home free.
Weightless kid that stands on the faucet?
This is for insurance purposes, if you haven't gotten 5, you're not eligible to claim your leukemia came from working at the plant.
The impressive part is that without a mishap, the plant workers actually stay under that limit most of the time.
The radiation does is meh, unless you're in the over 100mSv crowd, what's impressive to me is that 32,000 people were engaged working on this reactor - that's a decent sized city.
Is this worse than another RPi /vert?
I'd say the ODROID has many pain points, mostly related to lack of market penetration:
Also, this only breaks RSA style encryption. Good old fashioned shared key systems are immune to this, and many modern systems only use RSA-type encryption for the initial sharing of a secret key to both parties.
Yes, though some nations - even otherwise respectable ones - do seem to devalue their currency rather spectacularly at times.
Nothing is stopping any organization from purchasing physical multi-TB external hard drives and using them like fast, reliable tapes.
Nobody put a gun to people's heads making them buy arsenic laced snake oil, either.
And, yes, we've lost already - or haven't you dealt with the public at large lately?