One main reason why history is fascinating is precisely because historical records are rare and incomplete.

Imagine every single person's entire life in known history can be viewed at the push of a button. Nobody will ever watch it except maybe those with great historical importance. The vast majority of it would be more boring than the current crop of reality TV shows.

Imagine yourself, watching a recording of your past self, who's watching a recording of your past self, who's...

Agreed. Not the first and won't be the last, cf. Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

Come on now. Yes there are numbers involved in your analytics, but do you really think it even approaches the complexity of real technical fields, such as electronics, aerospace, bioengineering, nanotech etc.?

Not putting down marketing people, but don't try to be someone you are not.

Or he would have mentioned the product's name front and center.

Why will it be so embarrassing??

If/when it happens, we congratulate them. It will be another accomplishment not only for the Chinese people, but the humanity as a whole. After all, we've already done it, and revered the same way all around the world.

Not everything needs to be a race or competition. The cold war is over a couple of decades ago.

Sounds like preview can be your friend too.

It should be 2x10^16 joules, or 5 megatons (somehow 0.1C became C in the Google equation while copy-n-pasting). A little less impressive but still highly unlikely.

Note to self: preview is your friend.

> manhole cover moving about about 0.1c

A manhole cover has a mass over 50kg. Traveling at 0.1C, it's kinetic energy would be over 2x10^18 joules, which is about half a gigaton TNT equivalent.

By comparison, the most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated had a yield of 50 megatons.

Moral of the story: never underestimate the venerable C (when compared to human scale objects and measurements).

Other posts have already mentioned VNC, naturally. But more specifically, what you want is reverse VNC. You set up a VNC listener, and firewall port forwarding etc. on you end. Then ask the user to download a simple server executable (e.g. tvnserver.exe in the case of Windows/TightVNC) and connect to your IP address.

Seconded.

Not only is the logo too similar, but frankly it sucks. To the uninitiated it looks like a broken gear. You can only imagine the jokes down the road whenever something doesn't work.

For all its merits, graphic design is one of those areas where the open source movement lacks serious talent.

I see your point. It's universal in the sense that two arms and two legs are universal to all humans, amputees and people born with deformity notwithstanding.

"Empathy", that is. Note to self: preview is your friend.