Where did it say that in my post? The point was this: People joined these agencies to benefit themselves or their families. If you put yourself in their shoes you might begin to understand.
Before you know it people will retaliate and tag anyone and everyone they can think of as a gun owner.Even if they don't own a gun. Before long the app will be pretty useless as no one will ever know which tags are genuine vs fabricated. People will tag annoying neighbors, bosses, ex's, teachers etc.
Reading the google play page reveals a comment which read: Some idiot went and marked my granny's grave. I mean, how in the world did they know that I had ol' granny cremated so I could use the grave to hide all my weapons? That was a total secret.
(sarcasm) So yea, totally accurate. No One could ever abuse this. (/sarcasm)
Think of it like this, you know your enemy does not like civilian casualties and you are part of a somewhat loose group of individuals scattered throughout the land. Your best option is to make sure you are always within a populated area and in close proximity to innocents on a daily basis. This makes it harder for your enemy to target you with a missile because of the high probability of collateral damage. Maybe you even ensure you have a group of women and children in tow just to ensure you won't be targeted, a human shield.
If that is the case, and I am sure they are that smart, what do the strategists in the military do? Obviously they have people on the ground sniffing out these guys otherwise they wouldn't know a damn thing. The targets also know there are spies and take precautions. So I guess the hard decision has to be made to fire on these people with the hope that few of his human shields are killed.
Like another poster said you joined the Stasi to be shielded from it.
One of my close friends is Russian and grew up in communist Russia until the USSR fell. One thing he was proud of was the fact that his grandfather was a colonel in the KGB. His father was a loser and his mother divorced him shortly after she gave birth. My friend an only child and his mother single would have grown up poor as shit back then. But his grandfather (mother's father) made sure she had an education, job in the government as an english translator and nice apartment in the Moscow city center, blocks from the Kremlin. That KGB position protected his family not only from government persecution but also gave them a better life.
With all of the energy it takes to move around I cant ever see us or anyone else being able to feasibly leave their own solar system. If FTL is possible, and physics points to NO, then what would an alien race want with us? the only thing I can think of is study or resources. But as you mentioned at the point where an intelligent race comfortably move around the galaxy/universe then I think their resource problems were solved a long time ago.
My future prediction for the human race and probably any other intelligent race is eventually we will have such advanced computer technology that we will build a matrix like system. The robots wont take us over, we will do it to our selves as people realize that life inside of a virtual world where you can live any fantasy while being invulnerable is much more preferable to real life. We see it today with people addicted to MMORPG's and living vicariously through others via social media. The addiction will spread and eventually we will have automated systems including robots maintaining this system while people live out their lives in a fantasy. Who knows.
"(well that and the piss poor driver model, but that is another rant)"
Riiiiiiight. So when you take a windows 2k/XP hard disk from one PC and install it in a PC with different hardware it will boot without problems? At best Windows will BSOD in a reboot loop as it is dependent on the IDE/ATA driver it is initially installed on. Safe mode doesn't work either. Then there was the fun problem of moving from a uni-core (P3/Celeron) machine to a multicore, hyper threaded or dual socket machine because of the HAL. Moving windows after a hardware failure was a fucking nightmare if the hardware was obsolete and no replacements (maybe ebay). If you couldn't reset the drivers by deleting them in the control panel before shutting down and moving the disk to a new machine then you were in for a fun day. Usually the only way to do it was to perform a repair which simply restores the windows files. Then you have to spend a day re-installing the damn service pack and 100 or so updates. Admittedly Windows 7 and even Vista were a lot better. Don't know about 8 because I have only used it at a friends house and I have no need to upgrade.
Linux? Just move the disk to the new machine. Linux happily will auto detect the hardware and load appropriate drivers. You may need to do some tweaks, mainly with the video drivers and MAYBE the xorg config but that is because of the closed source nature of said drivers. Never had a sound issue since PCI devices became the norm. But I will admit that some games, mainly Doom 3 didn't like Pulse audio on Ubuntu 8.04 but a simple command line switch fixed that (pulse audio + ubuntu at that point was a mess). Using Linux circa 1999/2000 when I first started working with it was somewhat difficult to install and configure (Redhat 6). I had a lot of trouble trying to configure my ISA modem and sound card to work, there was something else too, I forget. I gave up on Linux for a few years because of ISA cards. Around 2004/2005 I discovered Knoppix and it turned me on to Debian and then Ubuntu. By then I had better hardware which had all PCI devices. Since then It has been a pleasure to work with. I had far fewer hardware problems in Linux than I did on XP. If there was a hardware problem it was simply because a driver did not yet exist. Older software which might not work is due to linking against obsolete/old 32 bit libs or libs that have since deprecated certain calls. Most of that is probably because of poor development and I have rarely come across it.
Be happy that GNU/Linux is always in a state of flux as it allows more bugs to be squashed as it evolves. Most of the security nightmares that Microsoft has dealt with are because of the constant need for backwards compatibility.
Eventually we will have 100 inch monitors that are 1 pixel high. And people will still be blown away by the size.
The concept is interesting but I want my vertical space back. 1600x1200 is ideal, widescreen only came about when the HD scam started. PC monitors were initially 16:10 with some 16:9 but eventually the HD moniker was applied to screens with pathetically lower resolutions such as 1366x768. So as long as it qualified as "HD" then people thought it was the bees knees.
1920x1080 isn't the worst but here at work I have a nice HP 24" 1920x1200. At home I have a 27" 1920x1080 monitor on my windows system (mostly gaming). On my linux development system I have a real nice samsung 4:3 monitor running at 1600x1200. Perfect resolution for coding. My old HP laptop is 1680x1050, 16:10, which runs Linux and mostly used for coding on the go.
Fuck anyone who says "But 16:10 monitors have black bars when I play HD video." Shut the fuck up you whining maggot. Who the fuck watches that much HD video on a PC to actually care about black bars?
The Argon won't kill you instantly if you breath it. I work for a specialized welding shop where we use NdYAG lasers. The liquid argon dewars frequently purge off excess pressure that builds if you don't manually vent them. The dewars are not in an enclosed room but a somewhat open loading dock area. When those dewars are vented they are spewing hundreds of cubic feet of argon every few seconds easily filling the area with argon. Noone has ever been harmed by that.
If your room is small, enclosed with little ventilation and you have a LARGE gas leak such as an open cylinder valve or burst high pressure hose then yes, you will eventually be asphyxiated. But it takes a lot of gas and the little gas that leaks from the box is nothing. We have glove boxes in small static free rooms for welding oxygen/moisture sensitive electronic parts. One is nitrogen the other argon. Both are kept at positive pressure (4 inches water column above atmosphere) so they constantly leak. Those rooms are 100% safe because the gas bleed is next to nothing, same for your metal printer.
Its not as dangerous as you think unless you have a major leak which is quite loud and noticeable.
Until this article, I had no idea who the Ben heck was. Saying he is legendary is a bit overblown. Don't get me wrong, I have heard of his portable mods and they are pretty neat but beyond that nothing.
To each his own I suppose. Most of the software I install which gets lost in the start menu is usually some utility I need for a file conversion or evaluating something. I used to let them pile up but now I uninstall them unless they were incredibly difficult to find. I find that on my windows PC its mostly games and a few programs that I run on both windows and Linux.
But then again how often do you really use the start menu? I run windows 7 on my general desktop and between pinning apps to the taskbar and using fences for some groups of icons on my desktop, I really have no need for a start menu. The downside is some programs come with help files, utilities and other ancillary programs that are better off stuck in a folder of an alphabetically arranged list. But those are a simple windows key -> type name and hit enter when the search finds it. That I will certainly miss.
On Linux I still do not run Gnome 3 and prefer Mate. I put shortcut icons in the upper bar and use the "start menu" from time to time. At least Linux gives you the freedom to say fuck you to new UI's.
NT 4 did have some direct X support, up to DX 4. BUT its major problem was complete lack of Direct 3D and USB. It did however support OpenGL perfectly so OpenGL games like Quake and Unreal ran fine. There was even an unofficial DirectX-5 hack.
I ran 2k, admittedly a pirated copy, the Compaq corporate ISO. Never had any big gaming or driver issues when it came to gaming. I think it was worse when 64 bit windows came out and many gaming devices did not have 64 bit drivers. I remember waiting a long time for Belkin to get its shit together and release a beta 64bit Nostromo driver to run on Vista 64. Video card manufacturers are always on point when it came to new windows releases, they always had drivers.
"That's when I started looking at Linux more seriously, especially after the clusterfuck of the 98-XP upgrade. It disabled my CD burning software saying it made the system unstable, despite the fact that I'd not had stability problems with 98, and would not ley me uninstall it.
This is why you never upgrade windows. You always do a fresh install. Yea its annoying to lose configurations and installed software but its not like it was difficult to get back up to speed, maybe a week at most. I learned after a 98-2k install that hard crashed (no bsod just locked up) after upgrade and wouldn't boot. From then on installing a new windows OS ment starting fresh which always worked flawlessly. And with windows we all know it better to start fresh.
Back in the days of 2k/XP changing a motherboard which had a different chipset ment endless headaches. You had to be sure you uninstalled all of your hardware drivers then shut down and installed the new mobo. Then boot up and pray the brain dead windows kernel would see the changes and try a default IDE/ATA driver instead of BSOD. Going from a single core/non-HT CPU to a dual CPU or HT CPU? Then you had to fuck around with the HAL to get a multiprocessor HAL working (back when moving from P3 -> p4/xeon). windows 7 was much better and could handle a hardware swap, so could Vista, amazingly.
Linux has always worked flawlessly and is always superior to windows when it comes to driver and hardware. You could yank a hard drive with Linux installed from an Intel PC and install it into an AMD PC with COMPLETELY different hardware and it would happily boot. Though, back in the days of ISA cards things weren't that easy. But it never was except for maybe DOS when you assigned memory ranges, IRQ's and DMA's by hand and you knew your limits.
Nowadays I only use Windows 7 on a PC for gaming and general use. Everything else is Linux, even my laptop. I don't hate windows, I just don't need it to do everything I want/need to do. And some things windows simply can't do without hacks or third party software which may or may not work (eg. SSHFS).
Just listen to CB sometime. Unregulated CB communication is pretty much us-listenable. It has even waned in use for truckers where it was at one time romanticized and heavily used. Most truckers who put in a CB do it for show or as a customary thing. They now rely on smart phones for traffic, weather and communication.
Sorry but I don't know what AR means. But if you are implying that people hold their phones 90 degrees vertically when they look up maps or text then I would say that no, they don't. More like 45 degrees or less to see the screen when navigating or general use (while standing or walking). Plus it would have to be held up more toward eye level to see the viewfinder on the screen.
I too like the idea of glass, the augmented reality possibilities would be fantastic. Navigation would be amazing: A foot path, arrows or others direction indicators can be overlayed right over your view pointing you in the right direction. Safer than glancing down at a screen. Text messages right in front of you as well as instant heads up information.
But the privacy drawbacks will always overshadow any real usefulness of the device.
"Yet people don't whine about dash cams or cameras in cell phones?"
We did when they first came out (camera phones). Then it became the norm and even useful once the cameras produced useful pictures and video.
The big difference between Google glass and a camera phone is that no one walks around continuously holding up their phone so the camera can capture everything. You have to be somewhat stealthy if you want to snap a clandestine picture or video with a camera phone. If someone is holding up a camera phone in your direction then it becomes obvious. With glass as long as the wearer is looking in your direction, they may or may not be filming you.
When you say dash cam I assume you mean police dash cams? Or general purpose dash cams like everyone has in Russia? Either way they are much less invasive than glass or even cell phone cameras. They are fixed and only capture a limited view. As for law enforcement, I have never heard people complaining about them. I don't have any strong feeling about them aside from the thought that every police cruiser should have one and it should be illegal for an officer to switch it off.
I know of a guy who made big money in bit coin hardware who is interested in developing a network of cube sats which create an encrypted, unregulated mesh network. The idea being that not only can people have a free as in beer network connection virtually anywhere in the world, but it will also be free from government/corporate spying and regulation. No one would own it and the funding would be crowd sourced.
It is not part of the internet but a separate network altogether. People will be responsible for creating the end nodes which host content using wireless up-links. The only cost to the end user would be the wireless adapter. There would be no geographic data transmitted or stored so knowing where the links are physically located on the ground is difficult. Since the cube sats are solar powered, there is no operating cost once they are deployed into orbit. It might not be blazing fast but it will offer people a way to electronically communicate in an anonymous fashion.
Also; queue the: "But the terrorists will use it to communicate", "Child porn distribution" and piracy nonsense.
PTO's are not limited to class 7 and higher trucks. Even vans (at least cutaway vans with the pickup chassis) and pickup trucks have PTO openings on the transmission. Ford F450/550 and Dodge 4500/5500 chassis are essentially longer pickup chassis with somewhat heavier suspensions. They have PTO options. Plus there are ways to modify drivelines for power towers or engine mounted PTO's. But in the case of special license, trucks weighing up to 26,000 lbs (11.8t) gross weight (class 6 and below) do not need any special license class or endorsements. You can get a pretty big truck in that class, with a van body up to around 26 ft (7.9m). Any one of those trucks can have a PTO opening as a standard part of the transmission.
You wouldn't bother paralleling a bunch of crappy portable generators, noisy as hell and the vibration would be staggering. It would sound like an angry swarm of robotic bees, you can't hide that in a smaller vehicle.
High power X-ray machines have 3 phase power supplies, they just don't make any high power equipment in single phase. So now you start needing larger generators, mostly diesel or in some cases using an industrial gas engine (Ford is a popular gas engine for small stationary backup generators). Again, more noise and vibration to deal with. A PTO generator with idle control is a bit more discreet and available off the shelf as an idling truck is not an uncommon sight. Bonus points if it is painted or lettered to be a utility or contractor truck.
The truck part is key if they rig up a PTO generator off the transmission. You can easily get 50+kW off of a transmission PTO or full engine output from a power tower.
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Or, you know, not having to spend $80+ for a utility that fixes a shit design.
Where did it say that in my post? The point was this: People joined these agencies to benefit themselves or their families. If you put yourself in their shoes you might begin to understand.
Before you know it people will retaliate and tag anyone and everyone they can think of as a gun owner.Even if they don't own a gun. Before long the app will be pretty useless as no one will ever know which tags are genuine vs fabricated. People will tag annoying neighbors, bosses, ex's, teachers etc.
Reading the google play page reveals a comment which read:
Some idiot went and marked my granny's grave. I mean, how in the world did they know that I had ol' granny cremated so I could use the grave to hide all my weapons? That was a total secret.
(sarcasm) So yea, totally accurate. No One could ever abuse this. (/sarcasm)
Think of it like this, you know your enemy does not like civilian casualties and you are part of a somewhat loose group of individuals scattered throughout the land. Your best option is to make sure you are always within a populated area and in close proximity to innocents on a daily basis. This makes it harder for your enemy to target you with a missile because of the high probability of collateral damage. Maybe you even ensure you have a group of women and children in tow just to ensure you won't be targeted, a human shield.
If that is the case, and I am sure they are that smart, what do the strategists in the military do? Obviously they have people on the ground sniffing out these guys otherwise they wouldn't know a damn thing. The targets also know there are spies and take precautions. So I guess the hard decision has to be made to fire on these people with the hope that few of his human shields are killed.
Like another poster said you joined the Stasi to be shielded from it.
One of my close friends is Russian and grew up in communist Russia until the USSR fell. One thing he was proud of was the fact that his grandfather was a colonel in the KGB. His father was a loser and his mother divorced him shortly after she gave birth. My friend an only child and his mother single would have grown up poor as shit back then. But his grandfather (mother's father) made sure she had an education, job in the government as an english translator and nice apartment in the Moscow city center, blocks from the Kremlin. That KGB position protected his family not only from government persecution but also gave them a better life.
+5 Logical.
With all of the energy it takes to move around I cant ever see us or anyone else being able to feasibly leave their own solar system. If FTL is possible, and physics points to NO, then what would an alien race want with us? the only thing I can think of is study or resources. But as you mentioned at the point where an intelligent race comfortably move around the galaxy/universe then I think their resource problems were solved a long time ago.
My future prediction for the human race and probably any other intelligent race is eventually we will have such advanced computer technology that we will build a matrix like system. The robots wont take us over, we will do it to our selves as people realize that life inside of a virtual world where you can live any fantasy while being invulnerable is much more preferable to real life. We see it today with people addicted to MMORPG's and living vicariously through others via social media. The addiction will spread and eventually we will have automated systems including robots maintaining this system while people live out their lives in a fantasy. Who knows.
"(well that and the piss poor driver model, but that is another rant)"
Riiiiiiight. So when you take a windows 2k/XP hard disk from one PC and install it in a PC with different hardware it will boot without problems? At best Windows will BSOD in a reboot loop as it is dependent on the IDE/ATA driver it is initially installed on. Safe mode doesn't work either. Then there was the fun problem of moving from a uni-core (P3/Celeron) machine to a multicore, hyper threaded or dual socket machine because of the HAL. Moving windows after a hardware failure was a fucking nightmare if the hardware was obsolete and no replacements (maybe ebay). If you couldn't reset the drivers by deleting them in the control panel before shutting down and moving the disk to a new machine then you were in for a fun day. Usually the only way to do it was to perform a repair which simply restores the windows files. Then you have to spend a day re-installing the damn service pack and 100 or so updates. Admittedly Windows 7 and even Vista were a lot better. Don't know about 8 because I have only used it at a friends house and I have no need to upgrade.
Linux? Just move the disk to the new machine. Linux happily will auto detect the hardware and load appropriate drivers. You may need to do some tweaks, mainly with the video drivers and MAYBE the xorg config but that is because of the closed source nature of said drivers. Never had a sound issue since PCI devices became the norm. But I will admit that some games, mainly Doom 3 didn't like Pulse audio on Ubuntu 8.04 but a simple command line switch fixed that (pulse audio + ubuntu at that point was a mess). Using Linux circa 1999/2000 when I first started working with it was somewhat difficult to install and configure (Redhat 6). I had a lot of trouble trying to configure my ISA modem and sound card to work, there was something else too, I forget. I gave up on Linux for a few years because of ISA cards. Around 2004/2005 I discovered Knoppix and it turned me on to Debian and then Ubuntu. By then I had better hardware which had all PCI devices. Since then It has been a pleasure to work with. I had far fewer hardware problems in Linux than I did on XP. If there was a hardware problem it was simply because a driver did not yet exist. Older software which might not work is due to linking against obsolete/old 32 bit libs or libs that have since deprecated certain calls. Most of that is probably because of poor development and I have rarely come across it.
Be happy that GNU/Linux is always in a state of flux as it allows more bugs to be squashed as it evolves. Most of the security nightmares that Microsoft has dealt with are because of the constant need for backwards compatibility.
Eventually we will have 100 inch monitors that are 1 pixel high. And people will still be blown away by the size.
The concept is interesting but I want my vertical space back. 1600x1200 is ideal, widescreen only came about when the HD scam started. PC monitors were initially 16:10 with some 16:9 but eventually the HD moniker was applied to screens with pathetically lower resolutions such as 1366x768. So as long as it qualified as "HD" then people thought it was the bees knees.
1920x1080 isn't the worst but here at work I have a nice HP 24" 1920x1200. At home I have a 27" 1920x1080 monitor on my windows system (mostly gaming). On my linux development system I have a real nice samsung 4:3 monitor running at 1600x1200. Perfect resolution for coding. My old HP laptop is 1680x1050, 16:10, which runs Linux and mostly used for coding on the go.
Fuck anyone who says "But 16:10 monitors have black bars when I play HD video." Shut the fuck up you whining maggot. Who the fuck watches that much HD video on a PC to actually care about black bars?
The Argon won't kill you instantly if you breath it. I work for a specialized welding shop where we use NdYAG lasers. The liquid argon dewars frequently purge off excess pressure that builds if you don't manually vent them. The dewars are not in an enclosed room but a somewhat open loading dock area. When those dewars are vented they are spewing hundreds of cubic feet of argon every few seconds easily filling the area with argon. Noone has ever been harmed by that.
If your room is small, enclosed with little ventilation and you have a LARGE gas leak such as an open cylinder valve or burst high pressure hose then yes, you will eventually be asphyxiated. But it takes a lot of gas and the little gas that leaks from the box is nothing. We have glove boxes in small static free rooms for welding oxygen/moisture sensitive electronic parts. One is nitrogen the other argon. Both are kept at positive pressure (4 inches water column above atmosphere) so they constantly leak. Those rooms are 100% safe because the gas bleed is next to nothing, same for your metal printer.
Its not as dangerous as you think unless you have a major leak which is quite loud and noticeable.
Most modern *nix systems defeat fork bombs by capping the number of processes allowed to be spawned by a user.
Arrrgh! I was going to try and be cute and say "I had no idea who the heck Ben Heck is" or something to that extent and screwed it up.
Until this article, I had no idea who the Ben heck was. Saying he is legendary is a bit overblown. Don't get me wrong, I have heard of his portable mods and they are pretty neat but beyond that nothing.
To each his own I suppose. Most of the software I install which gets lost in the start menu is usually some utility I need for a file conversion or evaluating something. I used to let them pile up but now I uninstall them unless they were incredibly difficult to find. I find that on my windows PC its mostly games and a few programs that I run on both windows and Linux.
Still no classic start menu.
But then again how often do you really use the start menu? I run windows 7 on my general desktop and between pinning apps to the taskbar and using fences for some groups of icons on my desktop, I really have no need for a start menu. The downside is some programs come with help files, utilities and other ancillary programs that are better off stuck in a folder of an alphabetically arranged list. But those are a simple windows key -> type name and hit enter when the search finds it. That I will certainly miss.
On Linux I still do not run Gnome 3 and prefer Mate. I put shortcut icons in the upper bar and use the "start menu" from time to time. At least Linux gives you the freedom to say fuck you to new UI's.
NT 4 did have some direct X support, up to DX 4. BUT its major problem was complete lack of Direct 3D and USB. It did however support OpenGL perfectly so OpenGL games like Quake and Unreal ran fine. There was even an unofficial DirectX-5 hack.
I ran 2k, admittedly a pirated copy, the Compaq corporate ISO. Never had any big gaming or driver issues when it came to gaming. I think it was worse when 64 bit windows came out and many gaming devices did not have 64 bit drivers. I remember waiting a long time for Belkin to get its shit together and release a beta 64bit Nostromo driver to run on Vista 64. Video card manufacturers are always on point when it came to new windows releases, they always had drivers.
"That's when I started looking at Linux more seriously, especially after the clusterfuck of the 98-XP upgrade. It disabled my CD burning software saying it made the system unstable, despite the fact that I'd not had stability problems with 98, and would not ley me uninstall it.
This is why you never upgrade windows. You always do a fresh install. Yea its annoying to lose configurations and installed software but its not like it was difficult to get back up to speed, maybe a week at most. I learned after a 98-2k install that hard crashed (no bsod just locked up) after upgrade and wouldn't boot. From then on installing a new windows OS ment starting fresh which always worked flawlessly. And with windows we all know it better to start fresh.
Back in the days of 2k/XP changing a motherboard which had a different chipset ment endless headaches. You had to be sure you uninstalled all of your hardware drivers then shut down and installed the new mobo. Then boot up and pray the brain dead windows kernel would see the changes and try a default IDE/ATA driver instead of BSOD. Going from a single core/non-HT CPU to a dual CPU or HT CPU? Then you had to fuck around with the HAL to get a multiprocessor HAL working (back when moving from P3 -> p4/xeon). windows 7 was much better and could handle a hardware swap, so could Vista, amazingly.
Linux has always worked flawlessly and is always superior to windows when it comes to driver and hardware. You could yank a hard drive with Linux installed from an Intel PC and install it into an AMD PC with COMPLETELY different hardware and it would happily boot. Though, back in the days of ISA cards things weren't that easy. But it never was except for maybe DOS when you assigned memory ranges, IRQ's and DMA's by hand and you knew your limits.
Nowadays I only use Windows 7 on a PC for gaming and general use. Everything else is Linux, even my laptop. I don't hate windows, I just don't need it to do everything I want/need to do. And some things windows simply can't do without hacks or third party software which may or may not work (eg. SSHFS).
Feeding the trolls here but, The GP's point was no one country does everything right, its not just the US that has problems.
If only there were some type of device which used two sharp edges and some sort of lever action to remove such "proprietary"plugs.
Just listen to CB sometime. Unregulated CB communication is pretty much us-listenable. It has even waned in use for truckers where it was at one time romanticized and heavily used. Most truckers who put in a CB do it for show or as a customary thing. They now rely on smart phones for traffic, weather and communication.
Sorry but I don't know what AR means. But if you are implying that people hold their phones 90 degrees vertically when they look up maps or text then I would say that no, they don't. More like 45 degrees or less to see the screen when navigating or general use (while standing or walking). Plus it would have to be held up more toward eye level to see the viewfinder on the screen.
I too like the idea of glass, the augmented reality possibilities would be fantastic. Navigation would be amazing: A foot path, arrows or others direction indicators can be overlayed right over your view pointing you in the right direction. Safer than glancing down at a screen. Text messages right in front of you as well as instant heads up information.
But the privacy drawbacks will always overshadow any real usefulness of the device.
"Yet people don't whine about dash cams or cameras in cell phones?"
We did when they first came out (camera phones). Then it became the norm and even useful once the cameras produced useful pictures and video.
The big difference between Google glass and a camera phone is that no one walks around continuously holding up their phone so the camera can capture everything. You have to be somewhat stealthy if you want to snap a clandestine picture or video with a camera phone. If someone is holding up a camera phone in your direction then it becomes obvious. With glass as long as the wearer is looking in your direction, they may or may not be filming you.
When you say dash cam I assume you mean police dash cams? Or general purpose dash cams like everyone has in Russia? Either way they are much less invasive than glass or even cell phone cameras. They are fixed and only capture a limited view. As for law enforcement, I have never heard people complaining about them. I don't have any strong feeling about them aside from the thought that every police cruiser should have one and it should be illegal for an officer to switch it off.
I know of a guy who made big money in bit coin hardware who is interested in developing a network of cube sats which create an encrypted, unregulated mesh network. The idea being that not only can people have a free as in beer network connection virtually anywhere in the world, but it will also be free from government/corporate spying and regulation. No one would own it and the funding would be crowd sourced.
It is not part of the internet but a separate network altogether. People will be responsible for creating the end nodes which host content using wireless up-links. The only cost to the end user would be the wireless adapter. There would be no geographic data transmitted or stored so knowing where the links are physically located on the ground is difficult. Since the cube sats are solar powered, there is no operating cost once they are deployed into orbit. It might not be blazing fast but it will offer people a way to electronically communicate in an anonymous fashion.
Also; queue the: "But the terrorists will use it to communicate", "Child porn distribution" and piracy nonsense.
"Currently nuclear seem to thrive only in countries where tax payers pay the bill and have no say in the matter..."
And as a side effect, have cleaner air. Those government bastards.
PTO's are not limited to class 7 and higher trucks. Even vans (at least cutaway vans with the pickup chassis) and pickup trucks have PTO openings on the transmission. Ford F450/550 and Dodge 4500/5500 chassis are essentially longer pickup chassis with somewhat heavier suspensions. They have PTO options. Plus there are ways to modify drivelines for power towers or engine mounted PTO's. But in the case of special license, trucks weighing up to 26,000 lbs (11.8t) gross weight (class 6 and below) do not need any special license class or endorsements. You can get a pretty big truck in that class, with a van body up to around 26 ft (7.9m). Any one of those trucks can have a PTO opening as a standard part of the transmission.
You wouldn't bother paralleling a bunch of crappy portable generators, noisy as hell and the vibration would be staggering. It would sound like an angry swarm of robotic bees, you can't hide that in a smaller vehicle.
High power X-ray machines have 3 phase power supplies, they just don't make any high power equipment in single phase. So now you start needing larger generators, mostly diesel or in some cases using an industrial gas engine (Ford is a popular gas engine for small stationary backup generators). Again, more noise and vibration to deal with. A PTO generator with idle control is a bit more discreet and available off the shelf as an idling truck is not an uncommon sight. Bonus points if it is painted or lettered to be a utility or contractor truck.
The truck part is key if they rig up a PTO generator off the transmission. You can easily get 50+kW off of a transmission PTO or full engine output from a power tower.