It was probably invented by the mail-clerks at Exact Sciences. They were tired of the mishaps when receiving Cologuard return-samples whose patients didn't understand the packaging instructions.

I wonder if anyone's going to revive that old hacking tool, "back orifice".

Cheech and Chong could have benefitted from this technology.

Thanks. Now you tell me...

If the camera is poorly aimed, it puts a whole new meaning to end.

If one changes how electricity is billed, ie, the more one buys the more expensive it gets, that would help a lot. Particularly when those huge-demand customers would end up paying for the development of the very power plants that they require in the process.

Demand-surge pricing is already common in many places. I see no reason why it shouldn't be applied to industry.

At work I could've bought a fiber Ethernet tester, a copper Ethernet tester, and a Wifi tester. I would've spent around $8000 for all three for the degree of testing I was buying.

Instead I bought a $12,000 tool that can test fiber, copper, and wifi. Because carrying around three tools and using three tools if up troubleshooting a streetlight-mounted terragraph backhaul device or AP is really cumbersome.

It's cumbersome to have to carry multiple devices if one device can do the job. I can think of lots of applications where this would be useful if it's durable enough, and they all boil-down to neither having to carry multiple devices nor having to carry a large, rigid tablet.

I'm still flabbergasted of the claim that the original pad that Gagarin launched from is supposedly being set aside as a museum. That simply doesn't make economic sense. First reason, pads are not free to build. They're quite expensive. Second, the facility is not in Russia, so its utility as a museum for Russian propaganda purposes is questionable.

It would make a lot more sense if they simply chose to do upkeep on only one pad, and for whatever reasoning they chose the pad with the now-broken equipment, and the the other pad at the site is so hopelessly out of date due to a series of refreshes to the in-service pad that the costs to refurbish it into usable condition are quite high. That at least would be logical, and frankly isn't a sign of decay in a program either. It makes sense to not spend money on something disused when budgets are finite. But to claim that it's reserved as a museum? Bizarre, to say the least.

Usually they'd book a flight to the nearest coastal city.

Honestly the reason to use such a service in lieu of owning a car is a combination of the day-to-day lack of need to own a car based on how one lives and wants to live, not having a safe, reliable place to store a car when not using it, and the general expenses of owning a car over the term.

In the country or the suburbs, one's day-to-day life might well require using a car if one is going to be able to really go anywhere, at least in a reasonable amount of time. Likewise one might well have plenty of space in which to park said car. And even if one's life may not require it, the time saved driving versus walking or biking (particularly in inclement weather) might simply make the convenience of a personal car a lot more important. It's not pleasant if going to do a fifteen minute task takes an hour when driving there and back would make it take a total of twenty minutes.

I'd actually expect in some ways that it could be easier in the countryside, if one's village is walkable in ten minutes, and if the mass-transit to leave one's village takes one to useful places quickly. If the village is too spread out to be easily walked or if the mass-transit takes too long to travel to other places one might need to regularly go, it would be difficult to not use private transport if one doesn't want to be essentially homebound. If the village is small enough then it might not be worth the company's time to place a rental in town if it simply won't be used enough.

This is a guess but it's based on how people were when I was in college. The market for these would be people who occasionally need a car for something where they cannot borrow one or where they cannot get a friend to provide a lift.

For a short-duration trip where this service makes sense, that's probably going to be a chore or an appointment. The chore could be shopping where hand-carrying isn't practical and where the shopping needs to be done in-person and delivery isn't practical or available. For appointments, I could see needing to visit doctors or the like where they may not be convenient to mass transit, or where post-visit there may be other chores like picking up prescriptions or going to have bloodwork done would mean an inordinate amount of time on mass-transit.

The issue isn't just crew launches, it's all the supply-launches. The 'progress' cargo craft make regular runs from this pad.

Europeans will absolutely get what they deserve here.

I think it's safe to say that the European style of democracy, where for some reason every single decision is closely scrutinized and can be vetoed by just about anyone, and every industry is regulated to the point were any change is essentially impossible, and new industries are killed before they can even get off the ground, has turned out to be a bad idea, and the US should immediately turn away from these kinds of policies before we follow suit and become irrelevant.

SEO killed search. If anything, AI has made it slightly useful again.