I probably just haven't heard of this idea before. But there are very few ideas that are this innovative. Yes, I'll have to commit to having my car in the parking lot at 101 North Main Street from 9 to 5 on a particular day, but it's there every weekday anyhow. And why just UPS/etc? I can give one-time keys to anyone I choose. The Feds will hate this because a mobile lockbox will be so much harder to investigate, right up to the day when they learn how to crack it (or are given a back door). Then they'll love it. However, it'll make framing people a lot easier, too. I suspect there'll be a lookup table specifying, by car model, how large a parcel one can receive.
As cool as the technique sounds, for me it's a solution to the wrong problem. Maybe some of you have trouble getting your videos streamed in congested cities, but I don't use my phone for that. My complaints are all about poor coverage in rural and even some suburban areas. And I have Verizon, which because it unfortunately swallowed Alltel (I'm not aware of any Alltel customers that were happy about that), has much better coverage in my area than the rest. What they need is a few hundred thousand more nodes in rural and suburban areas on ordinary utility poles, inside of steeples, etc.
Isn't this kind of like warning a serial killer to not kill again because he might be prosecuted if he does? Seriously, why would KimCo be willing to believe that by not committing any more crimes they'd be safe from prosecution? Warning them to try and minimize future crimes is fine, just don't expect it to work on them. Other Kim wannabees might possibly pay attention to it, however. But even that would work a lot better if KimCo were actually prosecuted.
Don't bother trying to disable the cameras... just enable cloaking on all occupants. Then all those photos will be devoid of people. Better yet, hide your motives better next time you request something like this.
Netflix isn't the only content provider out there, and most of the others are also service providers. Net neutrality is often about keeping the behemoths from giving their own content preferential treatment, bandwidth-wise. Laissez-faire inevitably leads to consumers getting a raw deal. Are these guys the shills they seem like, or do they just not understand economics?
Dead reckoning automotive navigation predates GPS and predates what would have become Geostar. Sure, the hardware is cheaper now, and algorithms might be better, but there's nothing new about this concept. Welcomed? Sure. But don't pretend it's a new idea.
It's not unlikely that along with all the other stuff he snarfed, he also got some dirt on some US politicians. Not that the Russians wouldn't give him safe haven just to spite the US (or obtain information from him), but they'd certainly do it as part of a deal with the US administration if they stood to gain something. What's more, it seems even more likely he has dirt on Russian politicians, which would certainly explain their willingness to grant him asylum.
Now you're talking. 220V 30A near the driveway for the camper or 50A for a Class A RV, hose bib nearby, and don't forget access pipe nearby for sewer. Cousin Eddie will never leave.
Oh yeah. Don't forget the closet for the helical track, to get the trains to various levels of visible track. The triacs and thousands of feet of unused triax can go in there, too.
Post before mine had some great thoughts. However, I'd skip #4 and make sure to do #10. #4: My TVs and "cable" have been on Ethernet for years now, and the only use I have for coax is to get from attic antennae to a TV or to a box to put the TV signals on the network. No harm in having it, of course, but I see coax as going away. #10: Several times I've wanted to add something to an existing box, but it didn't have both hot and neutral. Boo. That's a great recommendation.
A couple of decades ago I tried to do a little prep to the house being built for me. There were some successes, but mostly failure. Here's what I learned... trying to prewire is fine but you're not going to have a lot of what you wish for later, and some of what you do will never be used (missing: AC power to here and there and Cat5e to everywhere; unused: 10Base2 and 75 ohm 100% shielding TV coax to several rooms, in my case). Do run wires to the vicinity of every window or door in outside walls for 1) security sensors, and 2) power for lights, cameras, whatever. Pulling cable up and down through insulated outside walls later is undesirable, to say the least. Do make sure you have plenums of some type, accessible, above or below every ceiling and floor. Empty conduit is fine, but it won't be exactly where you want it. I'd only bother to do that for outside walls. If you can access inside walls from above or below, you can easily pull cables to the exact spot you want them later. Don't forget to bury conduit and/or cables in trenches to the general area of outbuildings or lampposts you might add later. You'll want any damage (and there will be some) to trees and shrubbery to occur right away, not 10 years later when you realize you need some trenches. Install several (not just 2) outside power outlets, individually switched.
So there's the early cabling prep. What else? Water, HVAC, air, gas... Obviously your location will make some of these things irrelevant. I wanted compressed air and running water in my backyard workshop, along with electricity and Ethernet (almost done). I would like a ground-source heat pump, but trenching for that after the house was complete is not an option for me. While the backhoe is on premises, bury the pipe for that NOW. It's relatively cheap to do that at this point, but likely infeasible later. If you wait, you may only be able to go vertical, and drilling half a dozen holes several hundred feet down is expensive unless your brother-in-law is in the business. Consider the freshwater pipes for a sprinkler system or outdoor shower or future pool. Burying these later is OK but you'll want to have a source for them near the outside wall of your house to tap. Planning a home theatre? Think about not just the speaker wiring, but how you're going to ventilate/cool the equipment, and how you're going to access the back of it all without pulling it out every time you want to plug something in. Where is your water heater in relation to the showers? You might want to install a hot water return pipe so you can circulate the hot water to avoid waiting unless you'll have an on-demand water heater near the point of demand. Natural gas? You might want to install some copper lines to various areas now which can be connected later when you add some kind of appliances (HVAC in an added room, for example). Think you might want to add ceiling fans later? Go ahead and install the junction boxes, WITH bracing. You can drywall over them until needed.
Where are those confounded junction boxes/alarm system wires/conduit/etc?!? Photograph or videotape everything before the drywall covers it. I did, and I'd be happy about that if I could ever find the videotape I made !@#$#%^&
What about the automation... oh, yeah, mostly right now you just want to make the fun part of setting that up fun by prepping the house for whatever you want later. I'd go with wired (less chance of interference or interception from outside), but each to his own. Too bad nothing has had the universal adoption of X10 (RIP). A couple more things, unrelated: bats can get in anything with at least a 3/8" crack, and they will. Make sure the house has no openings, particularly to the attic. Also make sure that your crawl space/basement/whatever is water tight and the exterior around it well-drained and that your garage slab and driveway are on a solid base. Around here, those things do not get the attention they deserve from builders. Good luck and have fun.
Not to mention that if you're an alien hostile to Sol's children, intent on attacking an Earthling outpost, you'd do it during the blackout. Post-blackout, we'd only know that the colony no longer transmits anything, not why.
I was thinking that, too; that there'd only be a need for enough rocket to get a spacecraft out of orbit around Earth, then take a dozen years if necessary to settle into small orbits around Earth-Sun L4 and L5. Not only no times where the Sun blocks Mars from Earth through both L4 and L5, but no times where the Sun blocks any other planet or asteroid from Earth through both locations simultaneously. Earth-Sun L4 and L5 relays are long-term infrastructure that we'll never regret building.
Don't forget Mad Max. Time for a fourth installment—this time, from another planet. Come to think of it, residents of Alice Springs might already have some necessary skills.
I've never watched more than 30 seconds of any "reality show". But this is one I'd give an hour or two of my time for a trial. So have they begun weeding through the volunteers, selecting for the narcissistic melodramatic sort?
If by one-way suicide, you mean they go there and die there, then the difference in going there and staying here is 1) expected remaining lifetime, and 2) having fewer others present for that remaining lifetime. Staying here is a zero-way suicide mission. But yes, I wouldn't expect anyone to have the delusion that they'd be rescued should they run out of food or encounter hostile Martians.
Good question. I assume it's lack of knowledge. I have yet to see any references to where the "black boxes" are in any car. Manufacturers, to please dealers, release very little data on functioning or repairs, so info about black boxes and tracking devices probably gets suppressed by default along with the rest.
A few years ago when GM sold auto insurance, you could get a discount for agreeing to let them track your driving habits with OnStar (maybe such a program still exists, IDK). You probably could have sold that new product to a few drivers. I suspect the Ford exec was trying to show how Ford had similar capabilities to GM when his inserted his wingtip into his mouth.
Of the many studies of the effects of coffee on health and/or measures like cholesterol levels, earlier studies tended to show a negative effect, and later studies tended to show a neutral or favorable effect. Someone noticed that earlier studies included a lot of 1960s coffee drinkers, who were mostly using percolators. Later studies included a lot of 1980s drinkers, who were mostly using paper-filtered drip coffee makers.
If I remember correctly, write-ins in NC are not automatically counted ( http://www.ibiblio.org/prism/Feb97/write.html ). Maybe he can get the few hundred who voted him onto the council to petition for his name to be counted in his race against Hagan. If he's serious about getting some attention, he should get billboards with his photo and a quote in Klingon written underneath. Otherwise, he might as well borrow a cloaking device, because he's going to be invisible anyhow.
Doesn't "inside joke" imply that someone else on the council understands why he'd do that or what's funny about it? Or maybe he's one of those people who smiles, and when asked why, answers "I think funny thoughts".
Surely it wouldn't be so easy for the NSA to get people to trust current systems as to just say they're building a quantum computer to crack those (because they can't otherwise)? Come on, that's an old trick. CIA pulled it on the Soviets, stealing a cypher machine to cover an agent who'd already provided the means of decrypting their messages, hoping the Soviets would stop investigating the agent. So the Soviets appeared to stop investigating.
Maybe the NSA can't crack some current codes, and is building a quantum computer to do so. But the converse isn't necessarily true. Maybe the US really couldn't read Soviet messages until CIA stole the machine (known as a "smoking bolt" operation, according to Tony Mendez). But I have trouble believing everyone in the KGB really bought that. James Jesus Angleton would not have.
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I probably just haven't heard of this idea before. But there are very few ideas that are this innovative. Yes, I'll have to commit to having my car in the parking lot at 101 North Main Street from 9 to 5 on a particular day, but it's there every weekday anyhow. And why just UPS/etc? I can give one-time keys to anyone I choose. The Feds will hate this because a mobile lockbox will be so much harder to investigate, right up to the day when they learn how to crack it (or are given a back door). Then they'll love it. However, it'll make framing people a lot easier, too. I suspect there'll be a lookup table specifying, by car model, how large a parcel one can receive.
As cool as the technique sounds, for me it's a solution to the wrong problem. Maybe some of you have trouble getting your videos streamed in congested cities, but I don't use my phone for that. My complaints are all about poor coverage in rural and even some suburban areas. And I have Verizon, which because it unfortunately swallowed Alltel (I'm not aware of any Alltel customers that were happy about that), has much better coverage in my area than the rest. What they need is a few hundred thousand more nodes in rural and suburban areas on ordinary utility poles, inside of steeples, etc.
Isn't this kind of like warning a serial killer to not kill again because he might be prosecuted if he does? Seriously, why would KimCo be willing to believe that by not committing any more crimes they'd be safe from prosecution? Warning them to try and minimize future crimes is fine, just don't expect it to work on them. Other Kim wannabees might possibly pay attention to it, however. But even that would work a lot better if KimCo were actually prosecuted.
According to CONTROL, the cone doesn't work so well...
Don't bother trying to disable the cameras... just enable cloaking on all occupants. Then all those photos will be devoid of people. Better yet, hide your motives better next time you request something like this.
Netflix isn't the only content provider out there, and most of the others are also service providers. Net neutrality is often about keeping the behemoths from giving their own content preferential treatment, bandwidth-wise. Laissez-faire inevitably leads to consumers getting a raw deal. Are these guys the shills they seem like, or do they just not understand economics?
One word, Etak.
Dead reckoning automotive navigation predates GPS and predates what would have become Geostar. Sure, the hardware is cheaper now, and algorithms might be better, but there's nothing new about this concept. Welcomed? Sure. But don't pretend it's a new idea.
Yep.
"...we can add Adobe to the list."
Ridiculous statement—Adobe was a charter member.
It's not unlikely that along with all the other stuff he snarfed, he also got some dirt on some US politicians. Not that the Russians wouldn't give him safe haven just to spite the US (or obtain information from him), but they'd certainly do it as part of a deal with the US administration if they stood to gain something. What's more, it seems even more likely he has dirt on Russian politicians, which would certainly explain their willingness to grant him asylum.
Now you're talking. 220V 30A near the driveway for the camper or 50A for a Class A RV, hose bib nearby, and don't forget access pipe nearby for sewer. Cousin Eddie will never leave.
Oh yeah. Don't forget the closet for the helical track, to get the trains to various levels of visible track. The triacs and thousands of feet of unused triax can go in there, too.
Post before mine had some great thoughts. However, I'd skip #4 and make sure to do #10. #4: My TVs and "cable" have been on Ethernet for years now, and the only use I have for coax is to get from attic antennae to a TV or to a box to put the TV signals on the network. No harm in having it, of course, but I see coax as going away. #10: Several times I've wanted to add something to an existing box, but it didn't have both hot and neutral. Boo. That's a great recommendation.
A couple of decades ago I tried to do a little prep to the house being built for me. There were some successes, but mostly failure. Here's what I learned... trying to prewire is fine but you're not going to have a lot of what you wish for later, and some of what you do will never be used (missing: AC power to here and there and Cat5e to everywhere; unused: 10Base2 and 75 ohm 100% shielding TV coax to several rooms, in my case). Do run wires to the vicinity of every window or door in outside walls for 1) security sensors, and 2) power for lights, cameras, whatever. Pulling cable up and down through insulated outside walls later is undesirable, to say the least. Do make sure you have plenums of some type, accessible, above or below every ceiling and floor. Empty conduit is fine, but it won't be exactly where you want it. I'd only bother to do that for outside walls. If you can access inside walls from above or below, you can easily pull cables to the exact spot you want them later. Don't forget to bury conduit and/or cables in trenches to the general area of outbuildings or lampposts you might add later. You'll want any damage (and there will be some) to trees and shrubbery to occur right away, not 10 years later when you realize you need some trenches. Install several (not just 2) outside power outlets, individually switched.
So there's the early cabling prep. What else? Water, HVAC, air, gas... Obviously your location will make some of these things irrelevant. I wanted compressed air and running water in my backyard workshop, along with electricity and Ethernet (almost done). I would like a ground-source heat pump, but trenching for that after the house was complete is not an option for me. While the backhoe is on premises, bury the pipe for that NOW. It's relatively cheap to do that at this point, but likely infeasible later. If you wait, you may only be able to go vertical, and drilling half a dozen holes several hundred feet down is expensive unless your brother-in-law is in the business. Consider the freshwater pipes for a sprinkler system or outdoor shower or future pool. Burying these later is OK but you'll want to have a source for them near the outside wall of your house to tap. Planning a home theatre? Think about not just the speaker wiring, but how you're going to ventilate/cool the equipment, and how you're going to access the back of it all without pulling it out every time you want to plug something in. Where is your water heater in relation to the showers? You might want to install a hot water return pipe so you can circulate the hot water to avoid waiting unless you'll have an on-demand water heater near the point of demand. Natural gas? You might want to install some copper lines to various areas now which can be connected later when you add some kind of appliances (HVAC in an added room, for example). Think you might want to add ceiling fans later? Go ahead and install the junction boxes, WITH bracing. You can drywall over them until needed.
Where are those confounded junction boxes/alarm system wires/conduit/etc?!? Photograph or videotape everything before the drywall covers it. I did, and I'd be happy about that if I could ever find the videotape I made !@#$#%^&
What about the automation... oh, yeah, mostly right now you just want to make the fun part of setting that up fun by prepping the house for whatever you want later. I'd go with wired (less chance of interference or interception from outside), but each to his own. Too bad nothing has had the universal adoption of X10 (RIP). A couple more things, unrelated: bats can get in anything with at least a 3/8" crack, and they will. Make sure the house has no openings, particularly to the attic. Also make sure that your crawl space/basement/whatever is water tight and the exterior around it well-drained and that your garage slab and driveway are on a solid base. Around here, those things do not get the attention they deserve from builders. Good luck and have fun.
Not to mention that if you're an alien hostile to Sol's children, intent on attacking an Earthling outpost, you'd do it during the blackout. Post-blackout, we'd only know that the colony no longer transmits anything, not why.
I was thinking that, too; that there'd only be a need for enough rocket to get a spacecraft out of orbit around Earth, then take a dozen years if necessary to settle into small orbits around Earth-Sun L4 and L5. Not only no times where the Sun blocks Mars from Earth through both L4 and L5, but no times where the Sun blocks any other planet or asteroid from Earth through both locations simultaneously. Earth-Sun L4 and L5 relays are long-term infrastructure that we'll never regret building.
Don't forget Mad Max. Time for a fourth installment—this time, from another planet. Come to think of it, residents of Alice Springs might already have some necessary skills.
I've never watched more than 30 seconds of any "reality show". But this is one I'd give an hour or two of my time for a trial. So have they begun weeding through the volunteers, selecting for the narcissistic melodramatic sort?
If by one-way suicide, you mean they go there and die there, then the difference in going there and staying here is 1) expected remaining lifetime, and 2) having fewer others present for that remaining lifetime. Staying here is a zero-way suicide mission. But yes, I wouldn't expect anyone to have the delusion that they'd be rescued should they run out of food or encounter hostile Martians.
Dead-blow hammers generally leave less collateral damage.
Good question. I assume it's lack of knowledge. I have yet to see any references to where the "black boxes" are in any car. Manufacturers, to please dealers, release very little data on functioning or repairs, so info about black boxes and tracking devices probably gets suppressed by default along with the rest.
Anyone? Bueller?
Perhaps the speed trap towns have lobbied against that feature.
A few years ago when GM sold auto insurance, you could get a discount for agreeing to let them track your driving habits with OnStar (maybe such a program still exists, IDK). You probably could have sold that new product to a few drivers. I suspect the Ford exec was trying to show how Ford had similar capabilities to GM when his inserted his wingtip into his mouth.
Of the many studies of the effects of coffee on health and/or measures like cholesterol levels, earlier studies tended to show a negative effect, and later studies tended to show a neutral or favorable effect. Someone noticed that earlier studies included a lot of 1960s coffee drinkers, who were mostly using percolators. Later studies included a lot of 1980s drinkers, who were mostly using paper-filtered drip coffee makers.
If I remember correctly, write-ins in NC are not automatically counted ( http://www.ibiblio.org/prism/Feb97/write.html ). Maybe he can get the few hundred who voted him onto the council to petition for his name to be counted in his race against Hagan. If he's serious about getting some attention, he should get billboards with his photo and a quote in Klingon written underneath. Otherwise, he might as well borrow a cloaking device, because he's going to be invisible anyhow.
Doesn't "inside joke" imply that someone else on the council understands why he'd do that or what's funny about it? Or maybe he's one of those people who smiles, and when asked why, answers "I think funny thoughts".
Surely it wouldn't be so easy for the NSA to get people to trust current systems as to just say they're building a quantum computer to crack those (because they can't otherwise)? Come on, that's an old trick. CIA pulled it on the Soviets, stealing a cypher machine to cover an agent who'd already provided the means of decrypting their messages, hoping the Soviets would stop investigating the agent. So the Soviets appeared to stop investigating.
Maybe the NSA can't crack some current codes, and is building a quantum computer to do so. But the converse isn't necessarily true. Maybe the US really couldn't read Soviet messages until CIA stole the machine (known as a "smoking bolt" operation, according to Tony Mendez). But I have trouble believing everyone in the KGB really bought that. James Jesus Angleton would not have.