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How can you be sure you cannot be spied on, if you upload to the cloud?

I don't like paying money for devices and services that are able to steal my data and/or spy on me.

I would like a security camera that is not able to connect to the outside world (when I'm back, it would allow me to see what was happening when I was out). I guess it should be allowed to the local network.

Does anyone have a recommendation for a good one?

Do you want to have multiple boards in a laptop? In that case, it would be great to have high-speed interconnect between them, I guess.

Aren't the actual, truly genuine Lenovo parts made there, too? Hong Kong is a Chinese territory.

I've been buying some ThinkPad chargers on eBay and never encountered outright fraud. When they say genuine, they really are. Otherwise they use different words.

You probably haven't tried poor imitation Apple USB cables. My brother bought a (probably especially poor) lot of 3 on Aliexpress and went through all 3 in a week! Maybe they did not use solder at all?

I have included "feature phones" in my original comment. None boot close to 1 second, and these, too, include a lot of functionality that I would like stripped out.

I would love to have a phone with a hell of a lot of stuff stripped out. I guess manufacturers don't.

Why isn't any phone doing it? (either smart or feature variety)

Well, if you can really make SQL work well within such constraints and be convenient to use - I see no harm in it.

When would you actually need a relational database running on such a small platform, today?

I understand programming in general and microcontrollers; I was paid to program one. Still, surely nowadays a system with a tiny 8-bit microcontroller is probably considered as auxillary to some kind of larger machine, which should be way better equipped to do the heavy lifting such as SQL databases?

...though still the latest and sanest of that crop of micro's, IMHO. Designed in 1996, it was once marketed as "the first new 8-bit architecture designed in 20 years", I believe :-)

I don't think there are any.

For such laptops to exist, there should exist a memory controller that supports ECC RAM. Intel's chips have memory controller built-in, since Nehalem (2008) [1] and Intel has no mobile CPUs with ECC support. Apart from the brand-new mobile Xeon's, the first of which are released in September and have 45W TDP; [2][3] I think the laptops with them are not out yet.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nehalem_%28microarchitecture%2...

[2] http://ark.intel.com/products/family/88210/Intel-Xeon-Proces...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_Xeon_microproces...

What is this extension?

I didn't mean to disagree argue that; just didn't have enough time to think this question over before typing.

Yes, death is not a binary state physically, but it is legally. This is what cryonics counts for.

Also, conscience is not binary; there is plenty of evidence that it is uneven and noncontinuous. People lose conscience and then regain it and live on all the time. Many people live in reduced states of consciousness most or all of the time. Our mind tries to maintain illusion of continuity of consciousness for our convenience. Sometimes people survive ridiculous amount of brain damage (men living with a hole in their head). All this is evidence that whatever forms our conscience is very redundant and just might survive the damage of what today is considered death and future restoration. Especially with the help of whatever medical technology will be available in the future (nanotech, hi-res brain scanning, etc.); especially if it would be needed anyway to counter the damage sustained during cryopreservation.

Personally, I'm with you on this. Cryonically suspending a person that died from brain damage or debilitating disease has even more fleeting chance for success. Unless there's a chance that at the moment of death the conscience is still there (due to great redundancy in the brain), it might be futile, after all. This is one issue that I believe all cryonics companies and advocates prefer to wholly overlook.

I imagine it should be terrifically hard to let go of your child and 'kill' them preemptively, for them to have a hope of later life. Even if the parents did even consider that option.

As far as I see it, cryopreserving a person that is not legally dead ('cryothanasia'?) might be possible, but no cryonics company has procedures in place to arrange for it and I am not aware of anyone that has been preserved this way. At least, it is necessary to move to a country where voluntary euthanasia is legal and the associated autopsy is not mandatory, and you are on your own with this. [1] This is another issue that cryonics companies and advocates prefer to overlook.

Cryonics is still very niche as it is. People are still very reluctant to arrange for cryopreservation beforehand, as it is. Cryonics companies have their hands full with just continuing to operate and convincing people to use their services. For there to exist people that are fully rational about their own or their loved ones' death, and think about it more deeply than the cryonics companies and advocates, is a whole next step entirely: I am unaware of such people yet.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legality_of_euthanasia

In this case, probably $80,000.

This is Alcor, the most established and expensive option. Their list prices are $80,000 for neuro (brain only), $200,000 for whole body preservation [1] There are various funding options. [2]

Cryonics Institute, the other US-based organization, charges $28,000 for full body [3] (they don't offer neuro)

Russian KrioRus charges $12,000 for neuro and $36,000 for full body. [4]

NB: if the cost seems high, keep in mind that most of the money is supposed to be held in trust for the cryonics patient so that income from principal can pay for long-term storage. [5] History proved that it's the only way to reliably and sustainably finance cyopreservation, potentially indefinitely.

I am not affiliated with any cryonics organization, just researching my options.

[1] Alcor FAQ: Cost http://www.alcor.org/FAQs/faq01.html#cost

[2] Alcor: Funding http://www.alcor.org/BecomeMember/sdfunding.htm

[3] Cryonics Institute FAQs: http://www.cryonics.org/about-us/faqs

[4] KrioRus: Human cryopreservation http://kriorus.ru/en/Human-cryopreservation

[5] Cryonics FAQ by by Ben Best http://www.benbest.com/cryonics/CryoFAQ.html#_IIIG_

So it took almost 100 years to restore it? Well, better late than never, I guess.

ok; I didn't figure whether kitchen and anything else is shared, from the site.

Looks like a regular flat to me. Has America just discovered flats? Can't see any floor plans under "floor plans": http://www.thealderflats.com/floorplans.aspx

I don't get it: what is "dorm style" here? What is communal exactly?

What's awful about Shipito? It worked for me.

TL;DR: Apparently, Duck Hunt (NES Zapper) only works on CRTs because they don't have input lag.

So OS X can have window managers? Are there any already?

Xeon processors with FPGAs have been announced over a year ago [1] (June 2014) and we haven't heard any details or exact dates since then.

[1] http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/184828-intel-unveils-new-...

Will reshipping service like Shipito work for you? https://shipito.com

That's exactly what upvote button is for.

Please give links to those even cheaper phones.

Does this have any running code?

At least in St.-Petersburg: nope. After visiting Helsinki and seeing countdown timers there (they have ~6 min intervals and countdown timers show minutes only) I thought countdown timers would be more useful, even if more complicated to implement; but alas.