I expect 3D printers will be a definite for any human trips to Mars. There were tests on ISS starting several years ago.

I really wish the US would reprocess its nuclear waste. I haven't listened to any congressional hearings on the subject, but I get the feeling that the US does not reprocess its nuclear waste in order to have a nuclear waste problem to complain about, which drives public interest against nuclear power.

Reprocessing costs money, but storage has a lot of its own issues. Besides, material is needed for many reasons, look at the challenge NASA had getting material to power various spacecraft not long ago.

Our Weimaraner quickly figured out how these things worked, used them a few times then decided she hated them. After that, every time we'd try to get her to use them she would look away with an 'I'm over it' attitude. She's a riot.

Yea, I implied in my comment above, that an ISP offering cheap gigabit access into their network is not the same thing as providing those 100,000 gigabit customers cheap access to the rest of the world.

I've seen a lot of comments on different sites for some time now, regarding the low cost of internet access in Europe. Especially compared to prices to the US. Is it possible ISPs have not priced their services to cover their costs adequately?

Its nice to offer symmetrical gigabit service and all that, but multiply that by the number of customers, I suspect they have bit off more than they can chew.

I totally agree about encoding in software being a better choice. I would be suspicious of whether there is a comparable amount of control available with Intels AV1 implementation.

Long ago, I used to have a HD antenna with 6 tuners connected to a server. One client was a PC that used an MPEG software stack to decode and render the stream, another was a small set-top box that had only a low-power CPU and an MPEG decoder chip.

The PC used to crash all the time due to occasional corruption in the broadcast stream (especially during thunderstorms), whereas the set-top box plowed right through it and kept going.

Something to think about.

I just bought some stuff from Home Depot that was around $3 a bag 6 months ago, now it is $8. Sucks.

I thought they finally gave up. I usually have mod points but hardly ever use them.

They would only be playable while the car is parked.

Hey, we could be related!. I have the same diet and physique. My wife is baking chocolate chip cookies (with homemade vanilla) as we speak, and I will be into them in about 10 minutes.

The article said they used Active Directory to map resources. You could also find resources looking at DNS servers. There are numerous ways to do this using various resources that store names of other resources. If you replace them, how will you prevent access to your new 'thing' considering that they obtained the credentials needed to access these current things first.

The user falling for the phishing attack is likely the biggest unsolved problem. Unpatched servers is solvable.

Expedition Back to the Future had a good segment on the Delorean HQ while they were in search of a particular car used in the movie. Well worth watching.

I used to work at a place that had regular security training. Sometimes it wasn't mandatory and would be preceded by suspicious emails, and if you fell for it, you were required to take it.

The article says that it has twice the yield strength as steel, but it doesn't say much about stiffness, or thickness that is achievable. It is impermeable, so perhaps it will be the new best swimming pool material.