The Mylar solar mirror could be aimed at Titanium Oxide solar assisted electrolysis, making that process even more efficient.
Water would be prefiltered using existing NASA water filtering technology in use on the ISS now.
But what really strikes me about AH's answer is even with his engineering challenges which are overcomeable, and horrible energy to fuel ratio guesstimates.
This Rocket fuel assembled in space 24/7 in the asteroid belt would likely still be cheaper than if we created the fuel on Earth, and flew it out to the asteroid belt on a rocket.
It costs me $10,000 per kilo to get something to LEO, ususally assuming 80% of the rocket's mass is fuel the rest is the vehicle istself and payload, so we have at least 4 to 1 efficiency loss, probably more. It costs more to more to boost it to GEO, you use a transfer orbit, maybe even a solar sail to get to the belt but you're still burning fuel to stop and maneuver when you get there. How many kilos of fuel have I burned to get 1 kilo of fuel to my fuel depot in the asteroid belt?
ANY Explorer will have to learn to use indigenous resources at some point to stay in the field longer, or permanenetly. We cannot continue to rely on fuel made and shipped from Earth for any serious missions beyond our own orbit.
Some more speculation from the Register based on the same reasons that the shuttle had such large wings, this gives it cross-range capability to launch and return in a singular polar orbit.
A scaled up version of this could replace capabilities that the shuttle provided to the military.
Sure they launch sats on rockets now, but they can't do any of the maintenance with a rocket. Also is folks listened to the MIT lectures on building the shuttle, they mentioned that the engines in the shuttle wouldn't have to be torn down and rebuilt between flights if the electronics were built onto the engine such the engines could be tested without removing them.
I'm sure there are other what if style improvements that the shuttle built from blueprints could benefit from in the age of CAD that would aid in the rapid turnaround of any new vehicle designed with the Twinkie's test data.
I used to hang my tape backup off of my file server because it had the most data to backup and so the fastest interface to the tape drive was installed on the file server.
All of the other machines (and file server)were given Gigabit Ethernet cards, and attached to a Switch that could handle 2GB simultaneous per port. The file server and mail server then were bottlenecked by the speed of the hard drives and the tapes themselves.
We also had users on the high speed network that needed to process large segments of the company's data from the fileserver which usually involved reading it into memory processing it and writing back the changes. All of these little exercises would have benefitted from a faster bus speed on the motherboard.
We could have done some stuff with striping the RAID arrays and buying more memory for the SCSI controllers, today we could be caching most of the jobs to RAM on the desktops.
My biggest bottlenecks were the hard drives all round and users competing for the 1GB pipe to the Fileserver. Having some sort of 10Gbit interface on the File Server would bring it back to drives, but as cheap as Ram is today I clearly would have bought 32GB or RAM and cached the contested data on a Ramdrive.
Create a capacity and someone will find a way to use it.
Now all we did was market research data processing, I'm sure the 3D CGI movie folks could find a use for this on their renderfarms, and I wonder if there are uses in MMOs to increase the number of folks on a battleground or zone simultanouesly.
Cost of Notification, cleaning up the mess, credit monitoring services for those effected $300 per person
Cost of a useable Credit Card of Identity to bad guys on the black market $10 each
Back when I working hard on a Data Encryption project (~2006), the FBI was using PointSec with 3DES and it was breaking everything, 3DES is a miserable encryption standard for Hard Disk encryption, its CPU intensive and wrecks performnace.
My Bureau decided on Guardian Edge (I was saddened to hear Symantec just bought them) they have a FIPS 140-2 validated crypto solution, which used AES 256 and didn't slow down the machines as much as other solutions.
Now Guardian Edge has this system where you take the original install media, install it at the Enterprise level and create an Enterprise Admin password, this process generates new install media for you to give out to your Local Admins which get their own password, and they in turn have to install the software on the user's PC.
This is one reason why the submitter can't install it himself, the crypto has to be installed, and can only be uninstalled by an admin with the Local Admin password, OR the Enterprise Admin password which was baked into the install media.
The software could also be pushed out through the enterprise using policy.
On the headache reducing side of things, the user can self-enroll 3 security questions which they can use to get back into the machine if they forget their password.
They can also do a one-time unlock by calling the helpdesk (yours not the vendors), the crypto software will create a challenge, and the user will read that out to the helpdesk who types it into the enterprise software and gets an unlock code which should get the user into the machine.
Updates to the software/passwords/keys can be pushed through the Enterprise but also deployed via CD or other removeable media for disconnected users.
That part is important because if one of your admins leave, and you have to update the Enterpise or Local Admin passwords, there is a mechanism.
We had a lot of users in the field thst never connected to the system so this last part, and the helpdesk unlock were really important.
Well, despite your intent you might be on to something.
Sometimes doctors 'invent' new procedures/techniques, and at that time they may be the ONLY person in the world qualified to perform that procedure.
So maybe a doc at a one of the big research hospitals has a life saving procedure, but you are stuck in podunk nowhere and can't be flown there in time, or as is common with some conditions can't be flown at all.
This technology could very well be all about sharing knowledge and experience, despite the actual facts of the article talking about radiation exposure, and all the comments on outsourcing to India.
The military and other organizations are working up shipping containers with these robots, so what if you're a highly paid specialist, and don't want to leave home, but want to offer your specialty to soldier's abroad, earthquake victims, people in Doctors without Borders countries but don't want to be shot at, or risk local diseases while offering the treatment.
You take the $1 mil robot, pack it in a shipping container, and load it on a boat, plane or truck to your disaster of choice.
Obviously if the cost of these things went down it could only be a good thing.
First surgery - Brain surgery to remove tumor requiring specialist from out of state/country, specialist doesn't have to waste time flying to different hospitals.
Surgery over, the specialist in his network connected RC lab takes a break, gets a gatorade. And gets ready for his next surgery in another part of the world.
At the remote hospital they hose down the Robot and get a fresh pack of instruments from the autoclave, restock the surgical theater and prep for an open heart surgery via another telepresence specialist in another city/country.
The specialists are able to help more people in more places, productivity for the doctors goes up.
The $1 mil for the robot replaces the annual salary of just 3 specialists, anything more than that is gravy, and next year the robot is free.
I worked on a network that was MPLS connected over the Verizon backbone, not the Intarwebs and my ping time from Washington DC to Los Angeles was 60ns. Playing Wow from my Comcast in DC to a West Coast server I never beat 120ns, and frequently double that.
What's an MPLS drop cost, peanuts for a Doctor that doesn't have to travel to see his patients, or a hospital that can offer WORLD CLASS surgeons to suburbia.
I think it has to scale to the size of the shuttle, at least the shuttle's cargo bay.
One point that people are missing, the shuttle had mission requirements to be able to deliver big satellites for the military, it also had requirements go up and retrieve satellites for the military.
Neither Orion, Ares, or a Falcon 9 with a Dragon on top can do anything about retrieving a large military satellites the size of the shuttle's cargo bay.
DoD can launch all the satellites it wants on Atlas rockets, but all they can do without the shuttle is de-orbit them.
Like the stealth fighters and spyplanes, the military doesn't stop flying one thing until it can meet those mission requirements with something else.
Also the shuttle had a military requirement to go up, service, install or uninstall a satellite and then return in less than 1 orbit so the Russians couldn't see it. They talked about this ever so briefly on the MIT Aerospace lectures on the Shuttle program. They also said that this functionality was never used. I think it'd be pretty hard to hide a shuttle launch, and with satellites in orbit I think it would be hard to have a launch window/mission the Russians wouldn't know about.
The 9 month on orbit loitering time allows them to use a shuttle sized version of this thing to grab a satellite and land quickly. Couple this with a hardened version of the robot, not the CanadARM, but the actual man shaped telepresence robot for the ISS, and you could do repair missions on-orbit for 9 months without sending up multiple missions and astronauts getting around launch windows, weather delays, fuel tank sensors and every other delay the shuttle is heir to.
Many years ago my Dad took me to the Stockyards in Fort Worth Texas, he showed me some tall brick buildings where they used to slaughter cattle.
They would walk the cattle up stairs in a building eight stories tall, and then kill them, the parts of the cow would then be placed on an unpowered assembly line that ran in the opposite direction and was moved by the potential energy of the cow's weight pulling it down the sloped assembly line.
McDonalds found this out first, but many restaurant chefs have found out through trial and error, that people like their burgers made from 70% lean beef with 30% fat. It makes a jucier burger than the 80/90/93% lean meats, a lof of this fat gets cooked off, but leaves flavor behind, and keeps the meat from overcooking and drying out.
So even if you were even close to right, those would not be tasty burgers.
Really? Because a lot of hamburger meat is ground chuck.
The chuck is the meat from the first 5 ribs over the top of the front legs. It is not exercised as much as say the round which is the tough flavorless meat from the hind end of the cow.
There are also a lot of tasty steaks and roasts available from the tenderloin primals, all of the well marbled meat comes from areas that don't get much work.
But the biggest problem with your statement is that the treadmill is supposed to help this farmer power his milking machines, and exercising his dairy cows. Despite the statement at the end about all the cattle in the world making 6% of our electricity. This would never make sense outside of a dairy, since you don't need much electricity to raise cattle. As others have stated, a windmill or solar panel would do a better job.
All hamburger comes from boys/bulls/steers, other than a few very rare bulls used for breeding most steers end up on feed lots live a fairly short life and are turned into all manner of tasty beef products and mystery meats.
Girl cows spend years getting pregnant over and over while providing thousands of pounds/gallons of various dairy products.
The folks complaining that cows are a poor system to turn grain into meat, need to consider that is only when the grain is used to fatten up beef cattle for slaughter, dairy cows turn grass/grain into dairy products, and more cows. The latter is much more efficient use of land and water.
Not saying there is a free lunch, but with the light weight and wingspan it has, it has a 40:1 Glide Ratio so if I power up my engines to climb really high. This extra altitude becomes potential energy that I can play out at a 40 to 1 ratio, 40 miles travelled forward for every mile I drop in altitude. Since its travelling ~44 mph, that's about an hours worth of travel just on gliding, can an hour's worth of charge make up for the energy spent gradually climbing 1 mile in altitude?
Do you climb during the brightest overhead sunlight?
I can't find the place where you calculated the available sunlight, but did you include the fact days are appreciably longer with stronger sunlight above 35,000 ft?
I toured a Datacenter in Pittsburg with 2 x 1 MW Diesel Generators and they of course were very matter of fact about their generators, tested them periodically, sent the fluids out to a lab to be tested on a regular basis.
They also had a pretty neat UPS array.
They even have a Youtube video about the Datacenter, I'm not a shill, not even a satisfied customer, just had to do a walkthrough for a customer. The UPS is at 2:50 and the Generators at 3:00
All in all though if you need backup power and a lot of the Generators will have battery backups in that case, for these folks the battery does seem like the simplest solution.
A lot of people, probably way more than you are aware use guns for target shooting, they shoot at paper targets, metal animal silouettes, and ceramic frisbees flying through the air. Some shoot at balloons in Cowboy Action Shooting quick draw competitions, and compete in Biathalons.
There is a very large contingent of people that use guns to hunt animals, not people.
And then there are folks that carry them around as deterrents, in which case the purpose is to be used as a deterrant, with the secondary effect that should it fail as a deterrant, it could be used to stop whatever crime it was supposed to deter.
Its worth noting that people die more from things they consider safe and in control of like their cars, than things they consider dangerous and out of their control (random gunman).
At a conference I was at recently a speaker talked to us about risk assessments, and how bad people are at judging risk, he said you are way more likely to die at the beach from suffocation, drowning or having a soda machine fall on you, than a shark attack. People however were more afraid of the shark attack, its a powerful image, something they feel powerless to stop.
Funny its always been on in a kids TV slot, and some of the Tennant stories had to be test screened with children because they thought they were too scary for the time slot.
Farscape made a point of having the characters walking/running somwhere whenever there was necessary exposition. Usually it was 2-3 different angle shots of the same 30 ft slightly curved corridor.
They thought it was more interesting than everyone sitting on the bridge/kitchen/maintenance-bay talking, and I think they were right.
I think Dr. Who could use less running for running's sake, but I've thought that since Tom Baker was the Doctor.
in the last three months we have noticed that you have gained 15% in body mass. Please report to the gym immediately or your health care benefits will be suspended."
From the Greeting I'd think his health benefit was already suspended.
I guess that bodies really DO bloat a little after death.
Which is easier separating and stitching together 3 different colored frames each taken at different times from a high speed camera, or 3 synchronized streams of video of the same subject matter taken from 3 different regular speed cameras with different color lens filters on them?
Funny the story only says Fingerprint scanner and Thermal Sensor, but even thermal + pulse can be fooled by making the fake fingerprint very thin, and applying it to the end of your own finger, unless you don't have a body temperature and pulse.
Mythbusters did it on the Crimes and Mythdemeanors episode, and I consider the fingerprint overlay patch, and Jamie's Marks-a-lot fingerprint enhancement to be improvements over the original $20 Gummy Bear attack from a Japanese researcher in 2002 that they were copying.
The original researcher enhanced the fingerprint details in photoshop, Jamie blew up the image in a copier and connected broken lines with a marker and shrunk the image back down.
The rest of the details Photo Etched Circuit board, silicon/ballistics gel/gummi bears are pretty much unchanged.
In 2006 after the VA hard drive got lost we were looking into an encryption solution for our backups, the thing we finally decided on was a 2U box with a tamper resistant case that would zero out the encryption keys if the chassis was opened, and the encryption chip was sealed in a resin that would destroy the chip if tampered with.
We ended up with the CryptoStor instead of the DataFort, right before CryptoStor fired all their hardware engineers and decided to focus on the software side of their encryption solution.
I would presume the encryption chip and memory of the Swiss Army Stick are embedded in a similar kind of resin.
I had a Economics partner at a firm I used to temp for that was pretty computer savvy, he had weatherbug set to tell him what temperature it was at his beachhouse and how the wind was blowing and if it was good, he'd leave early and go sailing.
He had a laptop, he did presentations at various client sites, but he'd always print his slides to transparencies.
How did this effect me? after about 50 color transparencies, the printer would jam, when the transparencies would start melting in the fuser.
Why did he print transparencies when he had a laptop? because the laptop plus power supply weighed more than the transparencies.
Slashdot Mirror
The Mylar solar mirror could be aimed at Titanium Oxide solar assisted electrolysis, making that process even more efficient.
Water would be prefiltered using existing NASA water filtering technology in use on the ISS now.
But what really strikes me about AH's answer is even with his engineering challenges which are overcomeable, and horrible energy to fuel ratio guesstimates.
This Rocket fuel assembled in space 24/7 in the asteroid belt would likely still be cheaper than if we created the fuel on Earth, and flew it out to the asteroid belt on a rocket.
It costs me $10,000 per kilo to get something to LEO, ususally assuming 80% of the rocket's mass is fuel the rest is the vehicle istself and payload, so we have at least 4 to 1 efficiency loss, probably more. It costs more to more to boost it to GEO, you use a transfer orbit, maybe even a solar sail to get to the belt but you're still burning fuel to stop and maneuver when you get there. How many kilos of fuel have I burned to get 1 kilo of fuel to my fuel depot in the asteroid belt?
ANY Explorer will have to learn to use indigenous resources at some point to stay in the field longer, or permanenetly. We cannot continue to rely on fuel made and shipped from Earth for any serious missions beyond our own orbit.
Some more speculation from the Register based on the same reasons that the shuttle had such large wings, this gives it cross-range capability to launch and return in a singular polar orbit.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/21/x37b_secret_launch_options/
A scaled up version of this could replace capabilities that the shuttle provided to the military.
Sure they launch sats on rockets now, but they can't do any of the maintenance with a rocket. Also is folks listened to the MIT lectures on building the shuttle, they mentioned that the engines in the shuttle wouldn't have to be torn down and rebuilt between flights if the electronics were built onto the engine such the engines could be tested without removing them.
I'm sure there are other what if style improvements that the shuttle built from blueprints could benefit from in the age of CAD that would aid in the rapid turnaround of any new vehicle designed with the Twinkie's test data.
Backup, Data processing
I used to hang my tape backup off of my file server because it had the most data to backup and so the fastest interface to the tape drive was installed on the file server.
All of the other machines (and file server)were given Gigabit Ethernet cards, and attached to a Switch that could handle 2GB simultaneous per port. The file server and mail server then were bottlenecked by the speed of the hard drives and the tapes themselves.
We also had users on the high speed network that needed to process large segments of the company's data from the fileserver which usually involved reading it into memory processing it and writing back the changes. All of these little exercises would have benefitted from a faster bus speed on the motherboard.
We could have done some stuff with striping the RAID arrays and buying more memory for the SCSI controllers, today we could be caching most of the jobs to RAM on the desktops.
My biggest bottlenecks were the hard drives all round and users competing for the 1GB pipe to the Fileserver. Having some sort of 10Gbit interface on the File Server would bring it back to drives, but as cheap as Ram is today I clearly would have bought 32GB or RAM and cached the contested data on a Ramdrive.
Create a capacity and someone will find a way to use it.
Now all we did was market research data processing, I'm sure the 3D CGI movie folks could find a use for this on their renderfarms, and I wonder if there are uses in MMOs to increase the number of folks on a battleground or zone simultanouesly.
Ahem, just to clarify what you mean by lifecycle.
Fedora has a 6 month release cycle, CentOS has an 18 month release cylce. This is how often they come up with a new version.
Fedora provides updates for the last 3 versions so 18 month supported updates.
CentOS provides updates for 5-7 years same as RHEL.
The Maths for Breaches
Cost of Notification, cleaning up the mess, credit monitoring services for those effected $300 per person
Cost of a useable Credit Card of Identity to bad guys on the black market $10 each
Back when I working hard on a Data Encryption project (~2006), the FBI was using PointSec with 3DES and it was breaking everything, 3DES is a miserable encryption standard for Hard Disk encryption, its CPU intensive and wrecks performnace.
My Bureau decided on Guardian Edge (I was saddened to hear Symantec just bought them) they have a FIPS 140-2 validated crypto solution, which used AES 256 and didn't slow down the machines as much as other solutions.
Now Guardian Edge has this system where you take the original install media, install it at the Enterprise level and create an Enterprise Admin password, this process generates new install media for you to give out to your Local Admins which get their own password, and they in turn have to install the software on the user's PC.
This is one reason why the submitter can't install it himself, the crypto has to be installed, and can only be uninstalled by an admin with the Local Admin password, OR the Enterprise Admin password which was baked into the install media.
The software could also be pushed out through the enterprise using policy.
On the headache reducing side of things, the user can self-enroll 3 security questions which they can use to get back into the machine if they forget their password.
They can also do a one-time unlock by calling the helpdesk (yours not the vendors), the crypto software will create a challenge, and the user will read that out to the helpdesk who types it into the enterprise software and gets an unlock code which should get the user into the machine.
Updates to the software/passwords/keys can be pushed through the Enterprise but also deployed via CD or other removeable media for disconnected users.
That part is important because if one of your admins leave, and you have to update the Enterpise or Local Admin passwords, there is a mechanism.
We had a lot of users in the field thst never connected to the system so this last part, and the helpdesk unlock were really important.
Well, despite your intent you might be on to something.
Sometimes doctors 'invent' new procedures/techniques, and at that time they may be the ONLY person in the world qualified to perform that procedure.
So maybe a doc at a one of the big research hospitals has a life saving procedure, but you are stuck in podunk nowhere and can't be flown there in time, or as is common with some conditions can't be flown at all.
This technology could very well be all about sharing knowledge and experience, despite the actual facts of the article talking about radiation exposure, and all the comments on outsourcing to India.
The military and other organizations are working up shipping containers with these robots, so what if you're a highly paid specialist, and don't want to leave home, but want to offer your specialty to soldier's abroad, earthquake victims, people in Doctors without Borders countries but don't want to be shot at, or risk local diseases while offering the treatment.
You take the $1 mil robot, pack it in a shipping container, and load it on a boat, plane or truck to your disaster of choice.
Obviously if the cost of these things went down it could only be a good thing.
First surgery - Brain surgery to remove tumor requiring specialist from out of state/country, specialist doesn't have to waste time flying to different hospitals.
Surgery over, the specialist in his network connected RC lab takes a break, gets a gatorade. And gets ready for his next surgery in another part of the world.
At the remote hospital they hose down the Robot and get a fresh pack of instruments from the autoclave, restock the surgical theater and prep for an open heart surgery via another telepresence specialist in another city/country.
The specialists are able to help more people in more places, productivity for the doctors goes up.
The $1 mil for the robot replaces the annual salary of just 3 specialists, anything more than that is gravy, and next year the robot is free.
I worked on a network that was MPLS connected over the Verizon backbone, not the Intarwebs and my ping time from Washington DC to Los Angeles was 60ns. Playing Wow from my Comcast in DC to a West Coast server I never beat 120ns, and frequently double that.
What's an MPLS drop cost, peanuts for a Doctor that doesn't have to travel to see his patients, or a hospital that can offer WORLD CLASS surgeons to suburbia.
I think it has to scale to the size of the shuttle, at least the shuttle's cargo bay.
One point that people are missing, the shuttle had mission requirements to be able to deliver big satellites for the military, it also had requirements go up and retrieve satellites for the military.
Neither Orion, Ares, or a Falcon 9 with a Dragon on top can do anything about retrieving a large military satellites the size of the shuttle's cargo bay.
DoD can launch all the satellites it wants on Atlas rockets, but all they can do without the shuttle is de-orbit them.
Like the stealth fighters and spyplanes, the military doesn't stop flying one thing until it can meet those mission requirements with something else.
Also the shuttle had a military requirement to go up, service, install or uninstall a satellite and then return in less than 1 orbit so the Russians couldn't see it. They talked about this ever so briefly on the MIT Aerospace lectures on the Shuttle program. They also said that this functionality was never used. I think it'd be pretty hard to hide a shuttle launch, and with satellites in orbit I think it would be hard to have a launch window/mission the Russians wouldn't know about.
The 9 month on orbit loitering time allows them to use a shuttle sized version of this thing to grab a satellite and land quickly. Couple this with a hardened version of the robot, not the CanadARM, but the actual man shaped telepresence robot for the ISS, and you could do repair missions on-orbit for 9 months without sending up multiple missions and astronauts getting around launch windows, weather delays, fuel tank sensors and every other delay the shuttle is heir to.
Many years ago my Dad took me to the Stockyards in Fort Worth Texas, he showed me some tall brick buildings where they used to slaughter cattle.
They would walk the cattle up stairs in a building eight stories tall, and then kill them, the parts of the cow would then be placed on an unpowered assembly line that ran in the opposite direction and was moved by the potential energy of the cow's weight pulling it down the sloped assembly line.
McDonalds found this out first, but many restaurant chefs have found out through trial and error, that people like their burgers made from 70% lean beef with 30% fat. It makes a jucier burger than the 80/90/93% lean meats, a lof of this fat gets cooked off, but leaves flavor behind, and keeps the meat from overcooking and drying out.
So even if you were even close to right, those would not be tasty burgers.
Really? Because a lot of hamburger meat is ground chuck.
The chuck is the meat from the first 5 ribs over the top of the front legs. It is not exercised as much as say the round which is the tough flavorless meat from the hind end of the cow.
There are also a lot of tasty steaks and roasts available from the tenderloin primals, all of the well marbled meat comes from areas that don't get much work.
But the biggest problem with your statement is that the treadmill is supposed to help this farmer power his milking machines, and exercising his dairy cows. Despite the statement at the end about all the cattle in the world making 6% of our electricity. This would never make sense outside of a dairy, since you don't need much electricity to raise cattle. As others have stated, a windmill or solar panel would do a better job.
All hamburger comes from boys/bulls/steers, other than a few very rare bulls used for breeding most steers end up on feed lots live a fairly short life and are turned into all manner of tasty beef products and mystery meats.
Girl cows spend years getting pregnant over and over while providing thousands of pounds/gallons of various dairy products.
The folks complaining that cows are a poor system to turn grain into meat, need to consider that is only when the grain is used to fatten up beef cattle for slaughter, dairy cows turn grass/grain into dairy products, and more cows. The latter is much more efficient use of land and water.
Not saying there is a free lunch, but with the light weight and wingspan it has, it has a 40:1 Glide Ratio so if I power up my engines to climb really high. This extra altitude becomes potential energy that I can play out at a 40 to 1 ratio, 40 miles travelled forward for every mile I drop in altitude. Since its travelling ~44 mph, that's about an hours worth of travel just on gliding, can an hour's worth of charge make up for the energy spent gradually climbing 1 mile in altitude?
Do you climb during the brightest overhead sunlight?
I can't find the place where you calculated the available sunlight, but did you include the fact days are appreciably longer with stronger sunlight above 35,000 ft?
I toured a Datacenter in Pittsburg with 2 x 1 MW Diesel Generators and they of course were very matter of fact about their generators, tested them periodically, sent the fluids out to a lab to be tested on a regular basis.
They also had a pretty neat UPS array.
They even have a Youtube video about the Datacenter, I'm not a shill, not even a satisfied customer, just had to do a walkthrough for a customer. The UPS is at 2:50 and the Generators at 3:00
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qhew8rXTGgE
All in all though if you need backup power and a lot of the Generators will have battery backups in that case, for these folks the battery does seem like the simplest solution.
Maybe the body knows Interleukin-6 won't stop bullets.
A lot of people, probably way more than you are aware use guns for target shooting, they shoot at paper targets, metal animal silouettes, and ceramic frisbees flying through the air. Some shoot at balloons in Cowboy Action Shooting quick draw competitions, and compete in Biathalons.
There is a very large contingent of people that use guns to hunt animals, not people.
And then there are folks that carry them around as deterrents, in which case the purpose is to be used as a deterrant, with the secondary effect that should it fail as a deterrant, it could be used to stop whatever crime it was supposed to deter.
Its worth noting that people die more from things they consider safe and in control of like their cars, than things they consider dangerous and out of their control (random gunman).
At a conference I was at recently a speaker talked to us about risk assessments, and how bad people are at judging risk, he said you are way more likely to die at the beach from suffocation, drowning or having a soda machine fall on you, than a shark attack. People however were more afraid of the shark attack, its a powerful image, something they feel powerless to stop.
Funny its always been on in a kids TV slot, and some of the Tennant stories had to be test screened with children because they thought they were too scary for the time slot.
Farscape made a point of having the characters walking/running somwhere whenever there was necessary exposition. Usually it was 2-3 different angle shots of the same 30 ft slightly curved corridor.
They thought it was more interesting than everyone sitting on the bridge/kitchen/maintenance-bay talking, and I think they were right.
I think Dr. Who could use less running for running's sake, but I've thought that since Tom Baker was the Doctor.
Oh, that's your idea!
Its been around for a while, you might have phrased it differently, more ambiguously with like 5 too many words.
From the TFS you'd probably go from;
"And it (probably) harm none" to "And it (didn't) harm none"
A slight err away from the side of caution more than you're used to, OSHA would not approve.
So when do we expect to see big magnets as accessories to CEO and Board of Directors Chairs?
"Dead Keith Jr.,
in the last three months we have noticed that you have gained 15% in body mass. Please report to the gym immediately or your health care benefits will be suspended."
From the Greeting I'd think his health benefit was already suspended.
I guess that bodies really DO bloat a little after death.
Which is easier separating and stitching together 3 different colored frames each taken at different times from a high speed camera, or 3 synchronized streams of video of the same subject matter taken from 3 different regular speed cameras with different color lens filters on them?
Funny the story only says Fingerprint scanner and Thermal Sensor, but even thermal + pulse can be fooled by making the fake fingerprint very thin, and applying it to the end of your own finger, unless you don't have a body temperature and pulse.
Mythbusters did it on the Crimes and Mythdemeanors episode, and I consider the fingerprint overlay patch, and Jamie's Marks-a-lot fingerprint enhancement to be improvements over the original $20 Gummy Bear attack from a Japanese researcher in 2002 that they were copying.
The original researcher enhanced the fingerprint details in photoshop, Jamie blew up the image in a copier and connected broken lines with a marker and shrunk the image back down.
The rest of the details Photo Etched Circuit board, silicon/ballistics gel/gummi bears are pretty much unchanged.
In 2006 after the VA hard drive got lost we were looking into an encryption solution for our backups, the thing we finally decided on was a 2U box with a tamper resistant case that would zero out the encryption keys if the chassis was opened, and the encryption chip was sealed in a resin that would destroy the chip if tampered with.
We ended up with the CryptoStor instead of the DataFort, right before CryptoStor fired all their hardware engineers and decided to focus on the software side of their encryption solution.
I would presume the encryption chip and memory of the Swiss Army Stick are embedded in a similar kind of resin.
I had a Economics partner at a firm I used to temp for that was pretty computer savvy, he had weatherbug set to tell him what temperature it was at his beachhouse and how the wind was blowing and if it was good, he'd leave early and go sailing.
He had a laptop, he did presentations at various client sites, but he'd always print his slides to transparencies.
How did this effect me? after about 50 color transparencies, the printer would jam, when the transparencies would start melting in the fuser.
Why did he print transparencies when he had a laptop? because the laptop plus power supply weighed more than the transparencies.