I don't think that would work. After 9/11, the coverage showed unbroken windows removed from the rubble at the pentagon. The windows were designed to withstand a hit from any man-portable weapon system. This included the most powerful sniper weapons, as well as RPGs. I'm assuming the White House is no worse than the pentagon, but I didn't build either.

So we shouldn't place control on non-LOS 50+ lb drones because there exist 2 lb LOS-only drones? I can put enough C4 on a 2 lb drone to cause problems. The glass on the White House is designed to stop a .50 cal armor piercing sniper bullet. If you wanted to shoot the president, you'd be better off shooting through the wall. But a pound or two of C4 on a small drone, landing at the base of the wall may damage it enough for a clear shot, or dislodge one of the supremely heavy windows. Though I suspect that wouldn't work, for other reasons.

My phone charge does 5A at 5V without an issue, and my laptop doing 5A at 20V does so over tiny wires.

You answer the question, then immediately forget the answer. You have AC at 240 (sigh, 110, if you must) and have outlets in some strategic areas (kitchens and for major appliances), and 12V or 48V everywhere else.

I think we should have a 48V internal wiring standard, with some 240V appliance plugs, for vacuums, refrigerators, washers and driers, and such. The dual-standard will complicate things slightly, but result in a large overall savings, as wall-warts are eliminated, and all their waste.

More sense is 240 AC for appliances, and 12V or 48V for everything else. DC-DC stepping in the wall jack isn't hard. So you go to the jack at 48V, and there to 5V for your wall-wart voltages. With some for 12V or 48V for higher powered things.

If it were me, I'd design a mechanical switch in the plug that activated the circuit, so it would have zero loss when not used, unlike current wall warts. We use 110 VAC because it's what we've always used, not because it's a good voltage or current type.

Some don't put out any. an RC drone will put out trivial spurious emissions. Only the live-camera type would be sending anything. So if you rely on RF for drone detection, there will be many ways around it.

Gene sequencing is not open to interpretation, thus never gets it wrong. Gene testing is not science.

You've said that the free lollipop given by a friend is free. Then you imply that the same exact lollipop transaction is no longer involving a "free" lollipop if your kid's friend stole it.

Free that requires unknowable knowledge of all previous owners of something before it's "gifted" to be able to determine whether it's free is a silly distinction.

Feral kid stole it from his idol, Mad Max. Note he was reluctant to give a name. He was thinking up which to give. Feral Boy sounded silly. So he went with Max.

So taxes are theft, so free doesn't exist?

I've never seen anyone confused by it. Just the argumentative people on Slashdot

Ah, the real objection. It doesn't give a sufficiently evil connotation for those who hate the term.

No, it doesn't. "Free" peanuts aren't free. "Free" AOL disks aren't free.

By the restrictive "no cost to anyone anywhere" definition, there's nothing free, so the word is meaningless. If the word is meaningless, then it shouldn't exist. As it does exist, the most common "no cost to the user" definition is the obvious one to use.

It's about $20k to get a setup that would let you plug in a panel, any panel. Building permits, the proper isolation, and all that. Then you can plug in panels for the cost of the panel plus mounting. But the pre-wiring to make the hardwired-mains solar ready is most of the cost (for me at least). Though I've seen the prices coming down on the hardware, the costs and delays getting permission to do it have gotten worse.

They do that to save production costs by having less show, and they also have plans to cut those parts out when they syndicate and move to slots where they are allowed more commercials per hour. When you make a 30 minute show with 15 minutes of comercials, you must fit in something for the 15 minutes in the hour gap, at least until you change the laws to allow for 30 minutes of commercials per hour.

I love the loudness war. Especially the result on VHS. DVD/Blu-Ray sucks because the dynamic range is so high.

When I watch a movie at home, to turn it up to be able to hear the dialogue whispers, the "loud" parts disturb the neighbors. When "loudness wars" come in, the volume difference between a whisper and an explosion are smaller. Less "realistic", but far more practical.

Much like "thug" is the new "Nigger", so was "subprime" at the time, especially in the South. I actually heard "Subprime crisis, that's what we get for lending to Niggers" said plainly and openly in Texas at the time.

Most subprime loans weren't to black people, but that certainly wasn't the implication at the time. Just another case in our racist society of waging a class war, and making it a racial issue.

I was offered a ninja loan at the time myself, and I wasn't subprime. I wanted to buy in the boom, a first home. I budgeted a payment, and found a cheap condo in a slightly run-down complex in a nice neighborhood. I went for a loan for the $80k (almost exactly the budget I had made out). Got approved for $350k or something like that, with payments that were roughly the same as my income. It was obvious that the loan broker was wanting to write me a $350k loan, verify I had $5k in cash reserves, then 3 months later, he'd have sold the loan as AAA+ or whatever, when my cash reserves ran out, and I was left homeless and penniless, and someone else was on the hook for the default. There was no way I could take the loan at the approved amount and make payments. But that didn't stop him from trying.