TFA sez: "A traditionally-farmed 1,000 square meter grow operation produces 600 kilograms of cannabis per year. But Levy says 16 Seedo containers (along with a Seedo robot to tend them) can fit into that same space..." Thus, according to the article, a Seedo container plus 1/16th of a Seedo robot is about 60 m^2 in footprint. Since the fridge thing is approx 0.6 m x 0.6 m (0.36 sq m), the fridge CANNOT be the Seedo container mentioned in the article, unless the Seedo robot takes up 99+% of that 60 sq meters. Maybe it's just an awkward robot... In any event, it would seem the "container" is a good portion of that 60 m^2 in footprint. Let's assume 50 m^2 of grow space for the container, which IS NOT the fridge.
Sez "At $150,000 per Seedo container...". Again, this cannot be the fridge-sized widget, especially since the website points out that the fridge is $2400. And the fridge doesn't appear to come with the "Seedo robot". No details on the cost of that robot...
At first, I imagined that the "container" was exactly that, a shipping container. Those things get used for everything, and this sounds like this system would do fine delivered as a complete shipping container: Just add seeds, electricity, water, and the secret ingredients. But even the largest containers (53' x 8') are only 39 m^2 footprint, that doesn't align with the 50 m^2 estimate, but it's not too far off. Maybe the robot needs 1/3 of the available footprint, making the growing area 40 m^2. Hey hey hey! No sure how the robot would navigate between containers, tho.
Sez "...16 Seedo containers (along with a Seedo robot to tend them)... produc(es) 2.4 tons of dry bud...". Thus, 1 Seedo container must produce about 150 kg of dry bud during some period of time, and TFA compares it to a traditional grow operation, using a year as the unit of time. According to an obvious Internet authority (https://www.growweedeasy.com/how-long-does-it-take-to-grow-marijuana) that process from seed to harvest can take 3-4 months. If we can crank the knob way up, then we could imagine maybe 4 growth cycles per year. If the container has a working area of 50 m^2, with growth 4 cycles per year, that'd be 37.5 kg of bud per 50 m^2, or 0.75 kg / m^2.
The most fecund crops are tomatoes, sugar cane, and sugar beets (https://www.visualcapitalist.com/the-worlds-most-valuable-cash-crop/). Let's use tomatoes for a comparison. They yield about 3300 metric tons per km^2, or 3.3 kg per m^2. Yes, it's tomatoes to dope, but 0.75 kg / m^2 is at least within an order of magnitude of 3.3 kg / m^2. That sounds imaginable. Instead of tomatoes, probably bud should be compared to a cereal where the amount of biomass that's not the desired product is similar to weed. And for that kind of produce, the yield would be more in line with the 0.75 kg / m^2.
Would be interesting to see if the robot can also do pollination!
Yet another incredibly unthinkingly lame idea from those who don't understand technology.
Far better to put a captive cell network in the confines of the prison and capture the cells inside the compound. If it's a friendly cell, and one known to be that of a worker, who can be checked for possession at any time (like send a text that has to be replied to with a specific, changing personal code), let the call go through, maybe. Or it gets routed to the prison IT group. If it's an unknown cell, or otherwise suspicious, let the call go to/dev/null, or maybe even better yet, have it go to a random robocall center!
"Although progress has been made in the last 10 years toward developing malaria vaccines, there is currently no effective malaria vaccine on the market."
While that page was from 2015, there's still no vaccine.
That Air France Flight 447 went down was not due to "poor training" or because of a lack of ability to detect a cyber-attack, but because the copilot in that airplane panicked and pulled when he should have pushed. (Frankly his mistake was a rookie mistake that student pilots are supposed to unlearn within the first 20 hours of training.)
AF447 was a "rookie" problem? No.
From the WTF Wikipedia:
"There were three pilots in the aircrew:[23]
The captain, 58-year-old Marc Dubois (PNF-Pilot Not Flying)[24] had joined Air France (at the time, Air Inter) in February 1988 and had 10,988 flying hours, of which 6,258 were as captain, including 1,700 hours on the Airbus A330; had carried out 16 rotations in the South America sector since he arrived in the A330/A340 division in 2007.
The first officer, co-pilot in left seat, 37-year-old David Robert (PNF-Pilot Not Flying) had joined Air France in July 1998 and had 6,547 flying hours, of which 4,479 hours were on the Airbus A330; had carried out 39 rotations in the South America sector since he arrived in the A330/A340 division in 2002. Robert had graduated from École Nationale de l'Aviation Civile (ENAC), one of the elite Grandes Écoles, and had transitioned from a pilot to a management job at the airline's operations center. He served as a pilot on this flight in order to maintain his flying credentials.[25]
The first officer, co-pilot in right seat, 32-year-old Pierre-Cédric Bonin (PF-Pilot Flying) had joined Air France in October 2003 and had 2,936 flight hours, of which 807 hours were on the Airbus A330; had carried out five rotations in the South America sector since arriving in the A330/A340 division in 2008."
From this, it is certainly not apparent that there were any "rookies" in the cockpit. It is far more likely that as autopilot systems become more sophisticated, and are able to fine-tune the flight performance more closely against the allowable envelope, that there becomes less margin for humans to take over when the autopilot gives up.
While it isn't obvious that some kind network engineer has connected passenger entertainment systems to avionics systems, this could be a real hazard. As you point out, that's not the only attack vector possible.
Your desire for pilots to fly the plane manually is laudable, but planes have become highly sophisticated beasties. Some (many?) aren't particularly aerodynamic without lots of autonomous feedback. Incredible performance is available, but at or beyond the edge of human hand-eye-seat of pants ability. I do not believe that it's possible to stop the rising tide of autonomy and I personally don't think that these flight deck advances are bad "in the long run".
Spoofing the inputs to the flight deck is very doable, requiring computing skill and jamming abilities. Like AF447, where spoofing was unintentional but generated very real flight disturbances, it's a way to upset a metastable condition and create disaster.
Shore that is a grate whey too git the deer kids inn two a university coarse.
THIS!
It's completely misspelled, of course. For those who claim spelling isn't important it's obvious that, with a bit of effort, one can understand the intent of the statement. However, it takes much longer to process the sentence.
what? you think your phone number xxx-zzz-yyyy (in the US) is secret? No. The spammers start with xxx-zzz-0000 and end with xxx-zzz-9999 then move to the next block. It's got nothing to do with your phone. Every hit they get (ring, not "this line is not in service") adds to the value of their call, as they can sell that to others, and every line picked up means that someone was curious enough to answer; that adds to the value of the information as well. Never pick up a call from a number that you don't know. Perhaps you won't win the Albanian Lottery - but in the long run, you'll be better off.
(Should) We (have) execs dashing in front of the cars going 50 miles per hours in any of those tests?
This is a really cool idea. It would "drive" home the point on system safety. Think how much more thought there'd be about operating when the exec's gotta put their life on the line for the work of their minions?
...the biggest problem with another "internet" will be who lays the pipe, which tends to be the government, with private companies handed that privilege as a proxy.
This vehicle has detected blocking of the LEFT FRONT UPPER optical sensor. This vehicle will now pull off the road in a safe location. Locate the OPTICAL sensor cleaning kit that was supplied to the registered owner of this vehicle and employ it in the method shown on the center console screen. Use of any cleaning product or method different from the specified product may invalidate your warranty. Have a nice day!
A renewable energy source that requires batteries to be useful when there is no sunlight is rapidly going to price storage out of reach.
don't see that at all. This is driving energy storage technology in ways it had never been pushed before. Now there's a market for energy storage and it's for the US to lose.
The next decade could be really rough for the traditional energy providers, as we will have to figure out ways to keep them afloat and at the same time, improve our transmission and distribution capabilities. I'm looking at the Texas model, where generation, transmission, distribution, and retail can all be separated, and wondering how that's working out? Is that a model for the future?
As another commenter has said, now that we have so much photo-voltaic power available, we've reached the point where are ready to bootstrap ourselves beyond having to measure in fossil fuel terms. Pretty cool. Bulk purchasers of solar panels must be paying less than 50 cents a watt. The biggest challenge for solar panel lifetime is hail, and they're pretty durable even then.
Good points. Also, now is a much different time in the cellular technology roadmap, where these originally completely non-interoperable, non-compatible systems can actually use the same fielded infrastructure. Remember T-Mobile was the first and only true GSM carrier, while Sprint (and Nextel) were weird mashups of other technologies. There was no common component. With that all changed now,
While most people think about their personal handset as their interaction with the carrier, the carriers are extremely seriously into the internet of things. There's way more volume and growth there than any ability to expand the traditional handset market. Qualcomm's latest C-V2X is a harbinger of the connected universe ahead. While marketed is as the cellular to vehicle solution, tweaks to this can reduce power and make it so that every traffic sign and street traffic signal will get connected. It can be immediately applied to the burgeoning IoT world, where devices need to talk to the Internet while also talking to one another. This is a very big business, with billions of devices and low ARPU, but it adds up pretty quickly.
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TFA sez: "A traditionally-farmed 1,000 square meter grow operation produces 600 kilograms of cannabis per year. But Levy says 16 Seedo containers (along with a Seedo robot to tend them) can fit into that same space..." Thus, according to the article, a Seedo container plus 1/16th of a Seedo robot is about 60 m^2 in footprint. Since the fridge thing is approx 0.6 m x 0.6 m (0.36 sq m), the fridge CANNOT be the Seedo container mentioned in the article, unless the Seedo robot takes up 99+% of that 60 sq meters. Maybe it's just an awkward robot... In any event, it would seem the "container" is a good portion of that 60 m^2 in footprint. Let's assume 50 m^2 of grow space for the container, which IS NOT the fridge.
Sez "At $150,000 per Seedo container...". Again, this cannot be the fridge-sized widget, especially since the website points out that the fridge is $2400. And the fridge doesn't appear to come with the "Seedo robot". No details on the cost of that robot...
At first, I imagined that the "container" was exactly that, a shipping container. Those things get used for everything, and this sounds like this system would do fine delivered as a complete shipping container: Just add seeds, electricity, water, and the secret ingredients. But even the largest containers (53' x 8') are only 39 m^2 footprint, that doesn't align with the 50 m^2 estimate, but it's not too far off. Maybe the robot needs 1/3 of the available footprint, making the growing area 40 m^2. Hey hey hey! No sure how the robot would navigate between containers, tho.
Sez "...16 Seedo containers (along with a Seedo robot to tend them) ... produc(es) 2.4 tons of dry bud...". Thus, 1 Seedo container must produce about 150 kg of dry bud during some period of time, and TFA compares it to a traditional grow operation, using a year as the unit of time. According to an obvious Internet authority (https://www.growweedeasy.com/how-long-does-it-take-to-grow-marijuana) that process from seed to harvest can take 3-4 months. If we can crank the knob way up, then we could imagine maybe 4 growth cycles per year. If the container has a working area of 50 m^2, with growth 4 cycles per year, that'd be 37.5 kg of bud per 50 m^2, or 0.75 kg / m^2.
The most fecund crops are tomatoes, sugar cane, and sugar beets (https://www.visualcapitalist.com/the-worlds-most-valuable-cash-crop/). Let's use tomatoes for a comparison. They yield about 3300 metric tons per km^2, or 3.3 kg per m^2. Yes, it's tomatoes to dope, but 0.75 kg / m^2 is at least within an order of magnitude of 3.3 kg / m^2. That sounds imaginable. Instead of tomatoes, probably bud should be compared to a cereal where the amount of biomass that's not the desired product is similar to weed. And for that kind of produce, the yield would be more in line with the 0.75 kg / m^2.
Would be interesting to see if the robot can also do pollination!
and his colleagues have been reading Snow Crash. Or maybe they haven't?
Yet another incredibly unthinkingly lame idea from those who don't understand technology.
Far better to put a captive cell network in the confines of the prison and capture the cells inside the compound. If it's a friendly cell, and one known to be that of a worker, who can be checked for possession at any time (like send a text that has to be replied to with a specific, changing personal code), let the call go through, maybe. Or it gets routed to the prison IT group. If it's an unknown cell, or otherwise suspicious, let the call go to /dev/null, or maybe even better yet, have it go to a random robocall center!
Well, considering we know how to vaccinate against malaria NOW (not to mention mosquito eradication) and it's not being done...
Um, not according to the CDC, at https://www.cdc.gov/malaria/ma...
"Although progress has been made in the last 10 years toward developing malaria vaccines, there is currently no effective malaria vaccine on the market."
While that page was from 2015, there's still no vaccine.
That Air France Flight 447 went down was not due to "poor training" or because of a lack of ability to detect a cyber-attack, but because the copilot in that airplane panicked and pulled when he should have pushed. (Frankly his mistake was a rookie mistake that student pilots are supposed to unlearn within the first 20 hours of training.)
AF447 was a "rookie" problem? No.
From the WTF Wikipedia:
"There were three pilots in the aircrew:[23]
The captain, 58-year-old Marc Dubois (PNF-Pilot Not Flying)[24] had joined Air France (at the time, Air Inter) in February 1988 and had 10,988 flying hours, of which 6,258 were as captain, including 1,700 hours on the Airbus A330; had carried out 16 rotations in the South America sector since he arrived in the A330/A340 division in 2007.
The first officer, co-pilot in left seat, 37-year-old David Robert (PNF-Pilot Not Flying) had joined Air France in July 1998 and had 6,547 flying hours, of which 4,479 hours were on the Airbus A330; had carried out 39 rotations in the South America sector since he arrived in the A330/A340 division in 2002. Robert had graduated from École Nationale de l'Aviation Civile (ENAC), one of the elite Grandes Écoles, and had transitioned from a pilot to a management job at the airline's operations center. He served as a pilot on this flight in order to maintain his flying credentials.[25]
The first officer, co-pilot in right seat, 32-year-old Pierre-Cédric Bonin (PF-Pilot Flying) had joined Air France in October 2003 and had 2,936 flight hours, of which 807 hours were on the Airbus A330; had carried out five rotations in the South America sector since arriving in the A330/A340 division in 2008."
From this, it is certainly not apparent that there were any "rookies" in the cockpit. It is far more likely that as autopilot systems become more sophisticated, and are able to fine-tune the flight performance more closely against the allowable envelope, that there becomes less margin for humans to take over when the autopilot gives up.
While it isn't obvious that some kind network engineer has connected passenger entertainment systems to avionics systems, this could be a real hazard. As you point out, that's not the only attack vector possible.
Your desire for pilots to fly the plane manually is laudable, but planes have become highly sophisticated beasties. Some (many?) aren't particularly aerodynamic without lots of autonomous feedback. Incredible performance is available, but at or beyond the edge of human hand-eye-seat of pants ability. I do not believe that it's possible to stop the rising tide of autonomy and I personally don't think that these flight deck advances are bad "in the long run".
Spoofing the inputs to the flight deck is very doable, requiring computing skill and jamming abilities. Like AF447, where spoofing was unintentional but generated very real flight disturbances, it's a way to upset a metastable condition and create disaster.
And, fortunately, anonimouscoward.com, anonymuscoward.com, and anonymousecoward.com are all available.
However, sad to say that plugh.com and xyzzy.com are long gone.
Shore that is a grate whey too git the deer kids inn two a university coarse.
THIS!
It's completely misspelled, of course. For those who claim spelling isn't important it's obvious that, with a bit of effort, one can understand the intent of the statement. However, it takes much longer to process the sentence.
you work for the wrong companies.
I have business cards printed up. I ignore calls. I survive.
what? you think your phone number xxx-zzz-yyyy (in the US) is secret? No. The spammers start with xxx-zzz-0000 and end with xxx-zzz-9999 then move to the next block. It's got nothing to do with your phone. Every hit they get (ring, not "this line is not in service") adds to the value of their call, as they can sell that to others, and every line picked up means that someone was curious enough to answer; that adds to the value of the information as well. Never pick up a call from a number that you don't know. Perhaps you won't win the Albanian Lottery - but in the long run, you'll be better off.
(Should) We (have) execs dashing in front of the cars going 50 miles per hours in any of those tests?
This is a really cool idea. It would "drive" home the point on system safety. Think how much more thought there'd be about operating when the exec's gotta put their life on the line for the work of their minions?
...the biggest problem with another "internet" will be who lays the pipe, which tends to be the government, with private companies handed that privilege as a proxy.
Citations please.
"The company apologized and said that it had never and would never allow child grooming on the site."
Washing and combing their hair?
This vehicle has detected blocking of the LEFT FRONT UPPER optical sensor. This vehicle will now pull off the road in a safe location. Locate the OPTICAL sensor cleaning kit that was supplied to the registered owner of this vehicle and employ it in the method shown on the center console screen. Use of any cleaning product or method different from the specified product may invalidate your warranty. Have a nice day!
I'd get my passwords tattooed on my forehead before I try using High Sierra again.
I hope on the inside...
Don't you have a book or two to read?
Mebbe he reads really really fast
all the way down.
A renewable energy source that requires batteries to be useful when there is no sunlight is rapidly going to price storage out of reach.
don't see that at all. This is driving energy storage technology in ways it had never been pushed before. Now there's a market for energy storage and it's for the US to lose.
The next decade could be really rough for the traditional energy providers, as we will have to figure out ways to keep them afloat and at the same time, improve our transmission and distribution capabilities. I'm looking at the Texas model, where generation, transmission, distribution, and retail can all be separated, and wondering how that's working out? Is that a model for the future?
Yeah, I thought it was "Palos Verdes" (LA thing)
As another commenter has said, now that we have so much photo-voltaic power available, we've reached the point where are ready to bootstrap ourselves beyond having to measure in fossil fuel terms. Pretty cool. Bulk purchasers of solar panels must be paying less than 50 cents a watt. The biggest challenge for solar panel lifetime is hail, and they're pretty durable even then.
who was too busy posting on /.
I just invented tacos!
your witchcraft.
Good points. Also, now is a much different time in the cellular technology roadmap, where these originally completely non-interoperable, non-compatible systems can actually use the same fielded infrastructure. Remember T-Mobile was the first and only true GSM carrier, while Sprint (and Nextel) were weird mashups of other technologies. There was no common component. With that all changed now,
While most people think about their personal handset as their interaction with the carrier, the carriers are extremely seriously into the internet of things. There's way more volume and growth there than any ability to expand the traditional handset market. Qualcomm's latest C-V2X is a harbinger of the connected universe ahead. While marketed is as the cellular to vehicle solution, tweaks to this can reduce power and make it so that every traffic sign and street traffic signal will get connected. It can be immediately applied to the burgeoning IoT world, where devices need to talk to the Internet while also talking to one another. This is a very big business, with billions of devices and low ARPU, but it adds up pretty quickly.
That's all solar is - energy from somewhere else!
Are web monkeys different from spider monkeys?