Daisy, daisy.

There seems to be no requirement to open the console, or even solder, and the picture shows what seems to be a board with an FTDI chip, and 2 wires going to the console. Is it just a UART, and are they getting into the bootloader that way ? If this is all it takes, then I imagine piracy to be rampant soon. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DV...

Uranium Molybdenum Cast Metal Fuel

Sodium Heat Pipes (First-ever use of a heat pipe to extract thermal power from a fission reactor)

Lithium Hydride/Tungsten Shielding (lightweight space-grade, neutron-shielding material for mobile nuclear reactors)

Stirling Power Conversion System (First-ever use of a Stirling convertor to produce electric power with a fission heat source)

Beryllium Oxide Neutron Reflector

here's some :

A compact, low cost, fission reactor for exploration and science, scalable from 1 kW to 10 kW electric

Novel integration of available U-235 fuel form, passive sodium heat pipes, and flight-ready Stirling convertors

Would provide about 10x more power than the Multi-Mission Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator

some perspective :

Power systems used on previous robotic missions (e.g. Spirit/Opportunity, Phoenix, Curiosity) do not provide sufficient power: all less than 200 W

source (with pictures!) : https://www.nasa.gov/sites/def...

Dave Jones' (EEVblog) analysis : https://www.youtube.com/watch?... (bonus points if you read the subject in his voice, let's hear your favorite dave quotes/one liners)

DEY TOOK ER DERP !ç

ok, so i can imagine something like McDonalds automating the food "preparation", since it's basically already "pick up item A, drop on location B, wait for xx time, then drop on location C" type of work, but I don't see machines making my steak-frites in the way a proper chef would prepare them any time soon, or any other proper meal.

I know, it's piracy right ? Not the fact that nowadays they make a long-play film out of a "story" that wouldn't even be considered as a side-plot for a Star Trek episode a few decade ago. Where actors are cast based on looks only, talent is irrelevant. When movie studios are basically banks, going for proven ROI's only, taking zero risk, killing and burying all remaining talent. Where now almost everything is a reboot or spinoff of a brand name made a few decades ago and marketed and hyped to death. Adding ZERO value, often simply demeaning to the original. And even when they try real hard, everything is pushed and shoved and even in their best efforts the end result simply lacks finesse. Where the whole SciFi genre is now reduced to Xmen bullshit and yet even more action packed garbage with simply no plot, no insights, nothing, just terrible cgi action scenes, and cheesy dialog. Where everything is tailored to one age category and the common denominator where all of the audience is considered to be brain dead morons and potheads.

darn html got filtered of < symbols.

Allow me to further elaborate as to WHY i found this algorithm so interesting, because it's so ridiculously simple. It considers a pixel is skin if 50 R - G 250, where R and G are the red and green channels from a 8-bit RGB pixel representation. Sure it's not meant for the prime-time, it's just a very interesting curiosity, and easy to perform in parallel.

which was all explained in the about text if you had cared to read it.

I came across an extremely simple skin detection algorithm some time ago and made a GLSL implementation. Check here for a demo and explanation (click about). http://labs.thygate.com/amazin... It is actually quite robust if the lighting conditions of the scene don't change too much.

MITM SSL attacks to steal your exchange creds ?

no mention in the article of what the decompiler actually decompiles to ..

or, in more readable scientific number, about 6GWh, which is not that much really, for a entire year for a worldwide service.