In my rural area I have access to 13 million acres of mostly wild fedral forest and many thousands of private forest (large corporation) within an hours drive, there are some ~10s of thousands of people in the greater (tri - village) area and a good number of these people choose to live in an extreme or often times 'off grid' or at least power only (no TV, well water, some have phone, no garbage, no city services like plowing). we are in a medium growth forest mountainous area so there is NO line of sight for well over half of that population, there is really no hope of getting them all high speed internet access, but I'm not sure that they would even want it.

The Guage system is completely intuitive (disclaimer, I shoot black powder smoothbore shotguns) 20 perfect*(pretty good) spheres of lead weighing 1 pound is a 20 guage shotgun. 12 perfect spheres of lead weighing 1 pound is a 12 guage shotgun.

They had acurate balance scales, but not acurate rulers. How would you solve this problem with no digital micrometer in sight.

Gun clinging Atheists are getting a bad rap here, we need discrimination also.

This only works for fixed width fonts.. otherwise

OOOO\tiiii doesnt line up with
iiii\tOOOO

Great where can I send my resume?

I bake bread as a hobby, I'd love to be able to program my high end steam oven to

baugette mode recipe
preheat - bake with convection fan on and 100% duty cycle steam at 500 degrees.
insert bread,
2nd step - stop convection fan, wait 5 minutes, reduce steam cycle to 50%, reduce oven temp to 400

etc etc, it would be different for chibatta, or brioche.

That was a subtle Godwin, Kudos on the eloquent reminder of what we're in store for.

SPOILER!! Thanks for ruining that for the rest of us

How'd that work out for you

One of my professors, gave both the question and the answer. You were graded on how you got from one to the other.

if you've only ever had store bought beef, you have almost certainly never eaten bull. female calves are pushed back into the breeding population, males are castrated, sent to a feed lot, shot with hormones and antibiotics and then ground into hamburger. (I butcher my own beef from my inlaws farm)

Mod parent up, this is the most insightful post I've seen on slashdot in months. Thanks for the new Sig.

Think of a Tyvec painters suit, but made out of tinfoil, with see through mesh screen.. Caveat. Mesh will only work for specific wavelengths. A modern laser microphone is impervious to your tinfoil sillyness

A Faraday cage, must totally enclose the device, i.e. no magnetic flux lines can leave the cage, and terminate outside the cage.
so unless you have a tiny phone I doubt a wallet was designed to totally contain an object the size of a phone