I'm growing more and more horrified to be a citizen of the USA.
Why? It seems like a fair sentence to me. There was no "whistleblowing" here that I can see. His disclosure compromised field agents, and could have done real harm. He was apparently just leaking classified info for his own benefit. This guy was not a Snowden, or even a Manning.
Isn't this the same attack vector that can be used with any finger print scanner?
No. Many modern fingerprint scanners check for a pulse, and/or detect subsurface structures that do not show up in a lifted print. Apple claimed that this scanner did both of these checks, but apparently they were lying, and it actually does neither.
Remember that a hacker won't know which of 5 fingers the owner uses, so that's another layer of security
Actually, many people have up to ten fingers. Personally, I use my big toe.
But this shows that Apple was less than honest in their claims about pulse detection, and sub-surface tissue detection.
The drinks mostly fill on their own in response to a button and IIRC, the fries are now on a timer.,
In some areas of Europe, McDonalds order-takers have been replaced with touch screens. As you would expect, automation tends to be higher in places with higher wages.
Why did it have to be assembled in tiny pieces instead of using big components with heavy rockets like Skylab was? If the ISS was made of big components with a heavy lift rocket, it could have been assembled in only 5 Saturn V launches (at about $1 billion a launch) or 1 Sea Dragon launch. Reviving a heavy lift rocket program would have paid for itself.
The whole point of the ISS was to give the space shuttle something to do. Using heavy lift rockets would have defeated its purpose.
That was my thought as well, tantalum capacitors are used in almost everything.
There are three qualities you want in a capacitor:
1. Cheap
2. Reliable
3. High Capacitance
You can pick any two:
1 & 2 = Ceramic
1 & 3 = Electrolytic
2 & 3 = Tantalum
It will cost more to supervise someone who does not want to work than it will to automate the job or hire someone productive.
No it doesn't. If their job is to do an automated task, the task can have a built in quality control. If they don't meet a minimum standard, then they don't get paid.
Example: My wife runs a educational website where teachers/parents can upload content. But before kids can access the content, it must be reviewed for inappropriate content (porn, profanity, etc). She uses Amazon's Mechanical Turk to hire workers to screen the content. 90% of the content is new, but 10% is randomly inserted content that has already been screened, and is known to be either be either appropriate or inappropriate. If the Turkers don't handle these tests properly, then their work is discarded, and they don't get paid
The workers she hires are from India, Pakistan, Philippines, Indonesia, etc. But never from America. I see no reason that welfare recipients shouldn't be put to work on tasks like this instead of munching potato chips in front of the TV.
yeah it certainly isn't a raspberry pi competitor. why buy this when you can buy a netbook for almost the same price??
Also, this thing is huge. Several times the size of a Raspberry Pi. It appears to require a wall wart, whereas a RPI can be powered from USB.
and check this out, 8 gpio pins. whee... no idea if any da/ad pins.
... and none of the GPIO pins can do hardware PWM. So this board is not much use for robotics.
is it a failure of the US social safety net that this man has to do this?
Of course not. He is earning a living. Why would it be better if he was on the dole? The safety net should be for people that can't work, not those who just don't want to.
google returns 5 pages of taxi services in San Francisco, that is one shitty monopoly, or maybe you do not understand that word too well
The monopoly is the single organization authorized to sell taxi medallions: The City of San Francisco.
Portland cement absorbs CO2 when it is being produced. It's a closed cycle.
It is also baked in a kiln heated to thousands of degrees, that is usually fired with either gas or coal. Cement production is a huge net generator of CO2.
how would the water used in fracking get up to pollute?
It doesn't go up. It goes down. The water pollution is caused by gunk leaking from waste water surface ponds. Solution: better seals on surface ponds, more inspections of the ponds, and bigger fines for violations.
How long does it take to etch a PCB (mould) and how long does it take for gelatine to cool down (finger cast)? (The method that Mythbusters used)
The Mythbusters episode was from 2006, and was done on a sensor that was even older. Technology improves. In a decade, it can improve a lot. Their technique would almost certainly not work today. Apple's sensor requires a pulse, and detects deep skin layers that do not show up on a lifted fingerprint.
With a $10 Walmart machete from the camping aisle, you can "Hack" off the key for yourself.
Nope. The iPhone, like most modern fingerprint scanners, requires a pulse. A severed finger won't work.
Solar powered aircraft will never be a viable means of transportation
Transportation is not the only use for aircraft. Solar powered planes would be ideal for surveillance, and as communications relays. For these applications speed is not important, but long loiter time and low maintenance are big benefits.
Anyone can make an omelet with eggs. The trick is to make one with none.
