I was 250, got down to 210 in a zealous fit of diet and excercise a couple of years ago. I seem to have settled at around 230 now (still obese, I'm not sure that label is helping me). I have gone back to not eating well but I did at least find a sport and stuck to it, so some good did come out of it and I feel a lot better than I did.

What I want OSU to do is to come up with something that means I can continue to eat badly but not suffer the bad effects, it's not that I don't know how to eat well or that I don't enjoy health food, it's just that I enjoy the unhealthy food as well. I found it far easier to change my excercise habits for the long term than to change my diet habits

so will the drones just follow anyone who has allstate insurance around spotting reasons not to pay claims ?

Sounds like congress

I wonder what the Q is and whether these might be used as highly frequency selective mirrors to split out different wavelengths of light, for example for wavelength division multiplexing in some way that is an improvement over current approaches ?

I see from wikipedia that nuclear is a great option today so far as the energy density and reliability are concerned. But there is another option... Time. We could just wait until a better technology comes along.

Why should we have to put up with the risk of a launchpad explosion scattering blobs of toxic plutonium far and wide when we can just wait a decade or two until a better option emerges.

So have they run out of high school students ? Why not just give one of them a raspberry pi and have them program up a replacement. Hell, get 2 raspberry pis and keep one as spare.

Just 3D print a new one with the right "nationality" on the other side of the border.

It would be nice to see some usable open source FPGA tool chains.

There are plenty of dev boards out there but I found Xilinx's ISE horrible to get started with and while I found Altera's Quartus easier I wouldn't say it was a walk in the park. That's why I got my DE0 nano to do something at least while my papillio is gathering dust.

Getting started with CUDA is way easier, it would be nice to see it reach cuda levels of ease of use and see the same range of books in Amazon and blog articles covering how to do some simple get-started projects.

sigh ! one more story about fecklessness with peoples personal details. I understand they may have stolen a bunch of clearance records, but how many new clearances did they upload ?

uncle

.csv is a microsoft format though. It wouldn't have happened if they has used syslog

I had always wanted a sailboat with an electric auxiliary motor driven boat. But the thought of standing ankle deep in salt water with a large 48-volt battery around scares me, I can't see any way to make it safe. At least with something like a hydrogen fuel cell you can turn it off if you start to take on water.

Well if you can reverse it it must be AC, very low frequency AC

She'll be at least 150 years old by the time she's paid off the student loans.

It's hard to imagine any packet loss on a short point to point ethernet cable. If there's no complex crypto involved or differences in the pumps, maybe it would be feasible to update one pump, capture the packet sequence in a pcap file, and then replay that packet sequence to the next pump using a raspberry pi. I would have thought a suitable "expect" style script could be cooked up... play outbound packets and expect the next inbound packet.