There is an old design for a flint powered detector similar to a more modern piezo-electric black powder detector.

Lets not forget the BATF detector which supplies its own sample and has a 100% detection rate.

I am sure that duct taping an authorized finger to the scan pad would hack the system. The rest of the authorized individual is redundant.

This technology could cause accidents by people assuming the safety function is operational, similar to when electric carving knives were introduced they had a pressure activated on switch on the blade.

It may also lead to the assumption that a gun is safe when it can still accidentally fire for other reasons inherent in a firearms mechanism.

Above comment is simplistic to the point of being deceptive. Twitty $ Grubbers like that forget what civilization is actually about. Lowering labour costs when the required cost of living is higher is a problem and not an end goal worthy of being sought. Capital doesn't care if it is unused, but unused people crash pretty fast, and civil society shortly thereafter. Politicians delegate money for infrastructure. To quote Naheed Nenshi a Mayor of Calgary: "snow removal isn't a right wing or left wing issue." Capitalism seeks the excess benefits for profit while unfairly leveraging the mutil-millenial lineage of human knowledge that brought their enterprise to bear fruit. Its ours, fuck off.

I recall reading a great article about a test site where the cold water was circulated through pipes that cooled soil& irrigated plants via condensation from ambient moisture, making hot volcanic soils viable for many crops that would otherwise be unable to grow. Chilled soil agriculture Fresh water was also produced by air condensers. This tech is not all about electricity, it can directly and indirectly produce other outputs.

Lets not forget the original media is a series of books.

The BC Liberals are fully ignorant. They are the a hollow skin of a snake who writhes beneath so many issues in so many places today. Woefully incompetent and what should be criminal misappropriations have occurred endlessly under such governance. Actions like theirs are a contemptuous threat to the rule of law since to allow them to continue even through their legislated mandate is to not to be a diligent citizen. Even within the governing cabinet they want to stop the train and get out of office.

First and probably primarily is security holes from supporting remote employees. Yahoo's email seems to have been broadly hacked, so much spam from address books of yahoo addresses. As a CEO, decisive action is made when no one else will speak of the elephant in the room, or assumptions need to be broken to progress.

Second, I have done lots of team work as well as remote work.. the physical interface of people is important for synergy. The problems I have solved by simply walking around the workplace and networking people who sit within 10m of each other are beyond counting.

Thirdly, Yahoo must really be in trouble and this is a sincere attempt to save it. Perhaps time to pay for their premium service.. They could use the cash, and i could use downloading my old emails.

The revenge effect from this decision could be nasty tho.. Security could get worse since some won't go and skills won't get transferred. People who worked remotely may not integrate well and may carry resentment into the workplace and the attempt to save it just might work just enough to drag the brand even lower. Good luck Yahoo! I for one am rooting for you.

Embed your culture in a fresh structure. Your core team will have high ideals. Your new hires will be ambitious. Overvisioning will force you to cut corners to keep your first contracts and meet milestones so that everyone has a job. You will move forward with the intention of a version rewrite that addresses the hacks. New hires will question the legacy BS, Rinse, Cycle, repeat.

This really sounds collectible. (Have to have it appraised)

as if a million voices cried out...

Having seen a household of USB plugs break from the BB's mainboard, and heard more of the same, I think this company may get suckered on a real simple bit of engineering. The spring loaded hooks on the charging cable basically rip the short micro-usb plug off when removing the cable in normal use.

I was surprisingly impressed with some of the innovative and modular internal construction tho, shame they can't seem to keep their house in order.

If these measurements of what HAS leaked are a concern, what of potential future risks of a greater magnitude?! Around Reactor 4 there is "unequal ground sinking of 0.8 meters" let alone how that projects over decades. Unit 4 is the one with a full core, etc in its top floor fuel pool and the same one that was photoshooped in an official release.

It seems that class of molecules has a natural function in the brain, to ease or wipe bad memories. Coding is stressful and honestly if you remember every single detail all the time it would overburden you from being locally focussed when needed, let alone socially functional. How many burned out coders do you know who just broke cause they held onto it all. Also as far as a work life balance, people need to chill out and marijuana is one way people do that.

Now if we are talking about heavy chronics, that is a different story.. the one benefit is that it keeps them in their chairs I guess.. but beyond that not so much.

There is an obvious solution in American folk wisdom