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we've developed robots that will 'collect' biological matter (slugs) and ferment it into gases which can be used for electrical generation, but it's incredibly inefficient and like…

There are a finite number of instant-provisioning VM/VPS hosts that such an organization can use, in terms of ASNs and IP blocks which are easily identified by netflix. Once Netflix has blocked a…

My hovercraft is full of eels: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6D1YI-41ao

> While it may be manageable for most, I wonder at what point it becomes downright dangerous for people in critical jobs. Based on experience in pakistan, there's already effectively no OSHA a…

If you want to do this on the cheap, see if you can find an old C-band mesh satellite dish. They can be found for free in rural areas of the US and Canada where people have them rotting in their yard.…

Maintenance costs are low four digits each year? Yeah, until you need to haul a 60' boat out of the water and scrape + re-paint its hull, which will need to happen on a regular schedule for the …

You are only "lord and master of your own domain" to a limited extent if you're paying $700/month moorage... You've just exchanged high rent for an apartment for renting a mo…

many major marinas in large cities prohibit 'liveaboard' type boats for exactly this reason.

saltwater is cancer for boats. basically a hole in the water you throw money into that will always be rapidly subject to accelerated entropy due to salt water.

I wonder if this aphorism applies, if studied strictly on the basis of economics for homosexual prostitution.

ClamAV on public facing smtpd/MX that talk to the world: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clam_AntiVirus …

Given the propensity of normal end users to click "OK/Accept" through just about anything, I don't think this is a good idea, as another poster points out. There's a reason wh…

In my opinion the bar is set much too high for the "Root CA death penalty". There has really only ever been one case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DigiNotar …

From the perspective of a person who thankfully no longer has to support any Windows based platforms: "Symantec considered harmful" full stop. Let's not forget this: http://a…

OSX: TextWrangler for multi-file GUI text editing.

> Helium can be easily retrieved from the atmosphere by fractional distillation Technologically, yes... But the last time I looked into this it is extremely costly in terms of energy (ratio of meg…

Modern VW might be nice from the perspective of a driver but they are a royal pain in the ass to service... Designed as throw away appliances almost.

Road bike nerds have known this for a while. If you ride a lot you will immediately feel the acceleration difference in a wheelset that totals around 1450g front and rear with hubs, spokes, nipples an…

Not Linux, but JunOS on seriously large core routers (T1600, MX960, etc) is a direct FreeBSD derivative.

I demand only the finest quality 16QAM low FEC coherent single wavelength 100 Gbps interface for my condo, doesn't everyone have an ASR9010 with $50,000 100GbE linecard in their closet???

I'm sure their first tier customer service people don't care at all and will just delete the ticket.

It might look like a mesh on a topology diagram but believe me, it has nothing in common with wireless "mesh" networking... I don't have insight into the exact configuration of webpass&…

testing "store and forward" disruption/extreme long latency networking stack technologies and software. it's only 495ms round trip ping time from earth via a geostationary orbit te…

800k seems like a lot, but they know that shipping companies will do the math on the fuel+salaries+operating cost consumed by going the "long way", and how many round trips a ship can make p…

"Carbon fiber everything" is a really great marketing strategy for a veblen good, primarily because CF is light and looks sexy, but I'm not sure it's a huge technical achievement. …

Based on what I know of Webpass' network architecture, I'd be very surprised if latency was >5ms average from any of their individual on-net buildings back to any of the major IX points w…

True, though there's a much greater selection of really high quality (medical grade, even!) active PFC 12V power supplies that will tune to 15V. Some of them even come in specific 15V versions li…

The original post shows that it needs +15V, -15V, +5V and -5V. This could be implemented with four separate high quality active PFC modern power supplies tuned to the right voltages. One thing that&#x…