15 MPH zooming through a crowded station or airport? Ouch!
But I might buy one if they switch out the wheels for hundreds of little legs.
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"There is also a huge concern that photographs of police on undercover units, surveillance or in sensitive areas like counter-terrorism could fall into the wrong hands,"
The terrifying possibility that women in entirely legal protest groups might find out that their 'boyfriend' is an undercover Met officer spying on them and all their friends and using them as a useful tool.
I'm having some work done on my house. Just simple updates. This has required several different tradesmen with different skills learnt over an apprenticeship, and kept up to date by having continuous work in that speciality. Just to do simple updates to a standard house.
How many people would be needed to support those tradesmen? How long would a Martian colony last if unable to do that kind of simple job to maintain the colony?
Now look at the industry needed to produce high technology. Hundreds of small firms doing specialised jobs, each with their own skills. How is a Martian colony going to reproduce all those?
Now look at computer chips, which are now utterly essential to run our tech. These are cheap because they are sold in vast numbers, but they are produced in factories that cost multiple billions. How is a small colony going to economically produce the very large number of different chips needed to keep its tech going?
Or just the people and resources needed to mine and refine the materials needed.
I very much doubt that a colony without those resources could survive on Mars.
at least some of them are hoping to find a loophole in it...
They are desperate to find a loophole in it.
We have two astoundingly successful theories, General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics, but they give completely incompatible descriptions of how the Universe works.
At least one of them must be flawed somehow, but physicists have been trying for nearly a century to find such a flaw.
It hasn't happened. Neither of them have ever produced incorrect results in an experiment.
"looking beyond that and finding out WHY that pilot error happened."
The pilot misheard a message about waiting for takeoff and thought it was clearance for takeoff.
Fix: Aircraft now wait for 'departure'. The word 'takeoff' is used ONLY when giving or cancelling clearance for immediate takeoff.
Result: No more Teneriffe.
There might not be another side. Just hook it out.
Take an old wire coathanger, use pliers to roughly straighten out all but the hook. You now have a few feet of stiff wire with a hook on the end. Perfect for ferreting round in narrow gaps and hoiking out whatever rolled/fell there, or grabbing things which are just out of reach.
Or the "Hello Nurses". Blair's lot decreed that patients must be seen within some fixed time after arrival. So you'd sit and wait and after a while the Hello Nurse would come and take you elsewhere - to another queue where you waited ages to be seen by the actual doctor. Result: all patients were 'seen' within the time limit, and a (desperately needed elsewhere) nurse had to spend all day doing pointless makework.
There is presumably a slight lag in GPS speedo readings? It can't measure your actual speed, it must measure the time you took to cover some distance - which it can only calculate after you've covered that distance. If your speed is changing rapidly it's not going to be instantaneously accurate.
"You're not going to put surveillance on management, now are you ?"
Well of course! It's important to the shareholders that management are doing their jobs and not skiving off, so they should be able to spy on what management are getting up to.
After all the managers can hardly complain about getting the same surveillance as the workers, now can they?
I had a Wang 2200B with two tape drives, one for data and one to load the next bit of the program - it had 12K of memory (occupying one board and half of another, said boards being about the size of the not-yet-invented S100 boards). Payroll, Orders, Invoices, stock control, general accounting for a small engineering factory.
"USB-C will be able to carry both 80Gbps and 240 volts."
240 volts on something the thickness of current USB cables? That does not sound safe, even with very low current. What's the spec for that? What happens when a cable is damaged - there can't be anything like the insulation thickness you get on mains cables.