Comment Re:Oh great. (Score 4, Insightful) 26
If anything, you should be asking yourself: if the FDA is only now issuing this guidance, and you haven't already been worried about security in your devices, how far behind are you?
They're trying to duplicate something they saw on a sci-fi TV show, thats primary use was exploration of alien planets
No, the tricorder's primary use was exposition, not exploration.
TV Show Watcher: What the heck is going on there?
Star Trek Character: (consults tricorder) There appears to be a radiation surge from other there, indicating a portal will soon appear and introduce this week's source of conflict.
TV Show Watcher: Thanks, informative tricorder!
It's not about how attractive they are. But how traditionally they are dressed. Which for many people contrasts with space exploration.
Well, although a sari is a wonderful outfit, the flowing fabric would probably just get in the way in zero-g.
(I kid, I kid)
My keys are metal. They don't bend.
Ah, but do your keys have a 5.7" screen?
Shade, dark weater, and high lattitude shifts it downward. (Forget about solar in Seattle, for instance.)
Someone ought to tell that to Germany, which has a mean latitude of 51 and plenty of cloudy days, and generates a significant fraction of their power from photovoltaics.
Naw, who am I kidding, everyone knows that the reason Germany is so successful with PV is because they get more sun! Seattle doesn't stand a chance by comparison!
The cheapest thing with solar is massive massive land area at like 8-15% efficiency, with a flat nonmoving panel, that might cost a couple ten bucks a square meter, long term
I am always astounded that parking lots in hot climates - a WalMart in Phoenix, say - doesn't have a roof of PV panels. Provide shade for customers' cars and generate power at the same time. In those sunny climates, the payback period is well less than a decade.
Wait, I thought hipsters were the guys who liked the new things
They can like new things, but they have to be ironic about it (in the Alanis way).
Over 1,000 nuclear weapons have been detonated on Earth in the past 50+ years
And about half of those were detonated underground, after the 1963 Test Ban Treaty. The ban on atmospheric testing was put into place once people realized that irradiating their own planet and dispersing toxic metals was a bad idea.
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