Defense training is a great idea; not just a bit of Aikido like police get, but plane-centric defense training (when to depressurize the cabin, dropping the oxygen masks, when to cause turbulence, getting everyone back into their seat, when to seal off the cabin, etc.)

Guns? We now know that depressurization due to a few shots isn't explosive on modern planes, and so this isn't a problem. However, if an attacker/terrorist knew for certain that every pilot carried a machine gun, the reason for the TSA would cease to exist -- the weapon he needs is pre-loaded on the plane. If you lock up the gun enough that it takes some time to get it out and ready, then you've lost its effectiveness. If it is portable and loaded and just needs the safety released, then there are MANY creative ways for someone to get their hands on it who isn't the pilot/copilot. This isn't a situation where you can see the shady group of thugs hanging out at the other end of the street; anyone going after the gun is going to give close to no warning and already be in close quarters.

Plus there's the facts that a) you don't want someone already operating a deadly weapon to have to be distracted by a second deadly weapon, b) guns tend to miss their targets a LOT even when fired on stable ground; in the air with a bunch of people packed in like sardines, there's going to be a lot of friendly fire.

It'd be better to give the pilots gas masks and a panic button, so they can depressurize and stay conscious. Oh wait -- they've already got that!

So it comes back again to training.

No, the biggest problem with that solution is that it could sniff out if you'd been in someone's garden shortly after it had been fertilized, or if you'd eaten a lemon-poppyseed muffin for breakfast, or had handled cash, or a multitude of other things.

In other words, Dogs have better context awareness than a chemical sniffer.

It's worth it just to see them raise the alarm.

Interesting method of waging war in space -- make mines out of objects that use their electrons to move into position -- then anytime a neutrally-charged object comes near them -- BOOM

It also makes you more valuable to your manager, as you're seen as someone who tells it like it is and has confidence in your abilities. Just make sure not to get over-confident, or that nest egg will dry up pretty quickly.

-When doing estimates, know that it will always take longer and be released with bugs. Factor that in.

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What level of luminescence and at what frequency do current UV sterilizers need to be for current treatment systems? And what wattage/gal are we talking about here? If they can find a way to mass produce these, there could be some significant wins globally for water sanitation.

Also: would this make it possible to create portable systems that you could carry with you whle hiking/carry to remote locations and operate via solar power/battery?

Interesting thing with this is that recent studies on stem cell communication shows that cells "age" and mutate when exposed to stress and inflamation. Which means this could also aid in longevity and reducing cancer activity in the body. I think there was an article on slashdot recently looking at a drug that combatted inflamation by the immune system in body tissues -- the two of these treatments together could be rather interesting.

Hmm... maybe someone should start up a spin-off called LobbyRoad where politicians can meet to trade kickbacks and favors in an anonymous setting?

Well, in this case, the device itself is standard issue for many hospitals; the novel bit is accessing it over the internet instead of leaving it on the intranet as has traditionally been the case.

Having been part of the "let's make this emulator do multiplayer over the internet" group back in the day, I agree with you... there's a LOT that can go wrong. If they're not designing for failure (in both software and operating protocol), they're in for a world of hurt eventually.

I have to admit, this one had me scratching my head.

Don't medical safety guidelines always require safe handling of the *worst* case scenario, not the *average* case scenario? Hospitals have network outages, and have plans in place to mitigate that. How do you mitigate a surgeon losing link while he's cutting the right ventricle? When you're yards away and the link goes down, you just scrub in. When you're on the other side of the world....

Apps can also be shorthand for aperitifs or appetizers. As in, "I grabbed the new Google app last night while eating an app at the bistro."

Sounds about right... QEMU isn't designed to be fast, it's designed to be accurate and portable. so writing a pipelined JIT x86 emulator specifically for ARM should get around a 4x speedup over QEMU even if it is solely based on QEMU code and a JIT engine, prior to optimization.

I think it was an attempt at humour.