You already could. An Israeli defense firm designed a system that could fire Glocks and Uzis around a corner by the use of a folding "stock" and a camera/screen combination. It could also be fired regularly like a rifle.
Pfft
Hmm.. the original article only seems to claim that the underground water is suitable for life, not that it was found.
Given the m vs m confusion, I don't find that all that surprising
LInk to the original publication: Deep groundwater and potential subsurface habitats beneath an Antarctic dry valley
Depends on the level of mnitoring a day. One ping a day, and inbound alerts on "quake detected"? A PIII on ADSL would probably handle that!
Or, of course, you could give the contract to EDS, and pay $38B.
You can't spec the back end system out on the non-earthquake situation.
The "value" in this guys solution is that you have a metric shitload of dumb sensors, and you process the data to determine the epicenter and then send out warnings appropriately. However once you are in an earthquake event, then you are going to get a sizable fraction of that metric shitload of sensors all instantly sending messages to the backend saying "Look at me! Look at me!", and your backend needs to be able to handle those messages without choking, perform the requisite calculations within fractions of a second, and then either get the 40 million warnings out instantly or try and decide what fraction of those warnings need to be sent - and again do that in a timely manner. . And that will take money for network infrastructure at the very least.
And given that it is intended as a life saving system you have to be able to regularly test and validate the reception of data and propagation of alert messages to a high level of certainty. Again, more costs. (If you have ever been in Hawaii then you should know that they test their tsunami sirens once a week)
Throw in some additional administrative costs for oversight and integration into *every* vendors cell network, and now you are talking about a decent chunk of change to run the entire system.
Yildirim says his Zizmos system will have virtually no installation or maintenance costs, because he plans to rely on the kindness of the crowd. Zizmos asks for volunteers to donate a tiny bit of interior wall space and a power outlet to host a sensor package, which is about the size of a deck of cards. Though these packages won’t go into the most remot areas along fault lines, and are far less sensitive than the types of sensors used by systems like ShakeAlert, the wider distribution, he says—10,000, or even 100,000 to cover California, compared with 1000 planned by the USGS—more than compensates for these deficits.
Oh my, I wonder what magical pixie dust he plans to use to bring the back end costs (setup and maintenance) to zero? A system that monitors 100,000 sensors and is capable of sending messages to almost 40 million people is not going to be done for free.
That's funny, I was thinking of https://xkcd.com/937/
BTW Have you ever noticed that XKCD has turned into the personification of the joke about the monks sitting around and telling jokes by just saying the number out loud? Truth is truly stranger than fiction!
Why not a Bluetooth mouse?
Just another stupid thing that takes batteries or needs to be charged.
So? How is that a con? O yeah , people still think in terms of providing a product instead of a service,.
It's cute that you think that everything can be a service. Which must be predicated on a belief that you can always access the internet.
When I last checked a few years ago, one of the cons of using any of the HTML based app development systems was that effectively you bundle the complete source code of your app inside your app.
Has this changed in recent years?
It's not a head transplant
That said... I fail to see what exactly their problem or complaint actually is.
In this last week an anti-vaxxer group in Australia put out a post on their FB page likening forced vaccination to rape (penetration without consent). They even illustrated it with a photo of a guy standing over a women in a menacing pose and holding his hand over her mouth.
So at this point I have no clue what some of them are thinking, and wouldn't even know how to communicate with them. (Although this particular message was so off that even a lot of the anti-vaxxers who were members of that group were decrying how bad it was.)
But what is even scarier is that I saw on CNN yesterday that even ISIS is keeping up vaccinations in the territory that it controls.
There are even places that rent out commercial grade simulators to the public.
Comes built-in. It's called "thirst"
So does the "Eating too quickly" reminder. That one is called "choking on your food"
These "solutions" all seem to be moving away from the idea of being aware of yourself. A cheaper, and more beneficial solution would due to take up a program of meditation.
If you don't understand that 3, 4 or 5 is the right passing score then you should have studied harder *+&
* For the humor impaired, please try and find the joke in there before you mod me down.
+ For the math impaired - yes there is a joke in there
& For the humor AND math impaired, what the hell are you on
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