If he knows the exact model of the hard drive, he could ebay a few test versions then create some form of ground penetrating RADAR that matches the exact resonating frequencies of that model of hard drive. He probably can't afford it, because I suspect the money he offered wasn't hard cash, but only contingent on a successful recovery.

The home charging station could have it's own batteries that get charged slowly from solar or the grid, then dumps quickly for 5 minutes after you pull in. It could be sized to put in 100 miles worth of power, then go to slow charge. The home battery could also double as a UPS during a power outage. If they build it right, you could use older car battery packs that have lost some capacity for the home charger.

If you are late delivering the product, you *will* be fired. If you send the product prematurely, you *might* brick the device, and have to stay up late fixing it. You decide.

Or perhaps parents today just perceive they would be yelled at for allowing this because they read that some parents in New Jersey was once talked to by CPS years ago. The "Nanny-State" is more of a chilling effect than a real phenomenon. Better communication means that even if an activity has only a .0001% chance of causing injury, we've heard of a child that was injured by it.

There's a family in our neighborhood that practices that kind of "Free Range" childcare, AFAIK no-one has actually yelled at them, and their children haven't had any more injuries than any others.

Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that you were less than honest.

It's also important to be the domain expert for something the company cares about. If you are the best accountant in the world, but your boss doesn't care for accounting and would rather outsource it, you'll never be in a good bargaining position, no matter how important your job is really to the company. Even if losing you would sink the company, it doesn't matter if your boss doesn't know or care.

I hope eman1961 also replies because I'm interested in his answers.

The short answer is that companies look outside for Rumpelstiltskin employees, who can walk on water and spin straw into gold for pennies a day. Internal employees are expected to just jump in and solve problems.

If you are already working for a manager or have recently finished a contract for him, successfully, it's easy to get a gig by saying, "I don't know that language, but I'll learn it and finish this project on time".

Of course, I've never been a fan of the "Language of the Month" club. Why decide to do a project in a language when you can't find the people who know that language? First find good people, then use the tools they know.

The current methods of cryogenically freezing you will make you legally dead. (That's the problem)

If they could non-destructively freeze and thaw you, it could be legal on a non-dead person.

If people are willing to go to the trouble of creating bots to find cancelations, then it's likely there are people who will *pay* for that service. The bot runners might be selling their service, similar to ticket scalpers. On the other hand, they might be doing it just because they can.

And/or a simple wait list that gives preference for preferred customers? I.e. The restaurants should see this as an unmet need, and provide their customers a solution.

From the 1960's. The CDC 6000's designed by Seymour Cray were the first "Super Computers". Each "Core" had about 30 mips.

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I think there is prior art.

Yes, but.

In the case of AT&T there were real physical limits to the number of calls that could be made from A -> B, and if the last slot was used by a hacker, there was one less slot for a paying customer. Most of the time there was overcapacity, mostly because AT&T did overcharge business customers, so they could afford to overbuild.

Still not getting it.

Over here, broadcast television doesn't have anything like a "Listen Live" button. It's strictly one way.
Exactly what buttons might one accidentally click on, on television?

In the US, there is "free" commercial broadcast TV, and paid subscription TV over closed cable. Internet TV is either free or paid subscription. For the paid stuff, you have to sign up for an account, and although there are ways to circumvent it, if you don't pay, you can't watch.

I was aware that British broadcast television was licensed, rather than a subscription. Is there a similar model for BBC Internet TV?

Did Gauss "put forward a multitude of propositions which one could neither prove nor disprove"?

Especially now that we have very fast computers, it seems like the false conjectures would be quickly disproven, and the true ones might take a bit longer. If we eliminate needlessly complicated conjectures, are we left with only "interesting" ones?