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Maybe I'm not following the conversation correctly, but plenty of US libraries lend digital copies of books, audiobooks, movies, tv shows, etc.

I was surprised to hear this, since there's already a rail line from DC to NYC. But maybe that's why they're so receptive, and 30 minutes is a whole lot better than 3 hours. I hope this succeeds, I'd love to see some lines between cities without rail connections.

Maybe your comment is correct in whole, but your examples immediately brought to mind science headlines from the past few years. Specifically the use of Near InfraRed (NIR) light to treat Multiple Sclerosis, the use of blue light to heal wounds and disinfect, reading the states of neurons in hydra and also in mice, implanting false memories into mice, and a plethora of transportable medical scanners. The implementation is not what a viewer would imagine, but they all meet the descriptions as written. Even if we are not near, we are undoubtedly approaching "Star Trek" technology by so narrowly attempting to replicate it.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/10/131022102227.h...

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/09/130910142334.h...

http://www.dailytech.com/New+Miracle+Diagnosis+Handheld+Medi...

https://www.cnet.com/news/esight-video-glasses-restores-sigh...

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2010/nov/03/vision-chip-...

Unfortunately no reviews from the verified purchaser.

I could have written this exact reply. I'm still hoping Logitech follows up with a solar powered mouse.

One from about a few weeks ago was: 1-866-978-6618

It's listed online by other people as a scam number. I did report it, and I ought to collect the other numbers as well.

I should have been specific, these calls are impersonating the FBI and IRS. I do know that they started after I registered a domain with a real phone number - lesson learned.

I've been getting robot calls/voicemails (IRS/FBI impersonator) where the scammer leaves a callback number that matches the caller ID number. Always an 800 number. Any insight into how this works for the scammer, how they don't get caught doing this?

Sounds like an expensive lesson in wine and perfection.

I understood that the steps are followed by scientists such as the author, it's just the guide that is intended for non-scientists.

Why don't the authors do these 11 steps for us?

An automated indoor herb garden would be neat, but what does the cost curve look like compared to shipping traditional potted herbs? I was offput by the article mentioning flying basil thousands of miles, but maybe that's my bias since stores in the US usually carry potted basil plants. Taking care of the hydroponic stack might be as simple as changing a cartridge now and then, but how much does that cartridge cost and where does it have to be flown in from?

Clearly stores and investors are buying into this, so I must be missing some information. Or I'm overly skeptical because I dislike the idea. But how much do these store grown herbs cost?

I made the mistake of registering a .us domain and using my regular phone number, after six months I've started receiving the infamous robo IRS calls. The robot call is listed as being from 1-866-978-6618 and in the voicemail requests that I call back that same number. Online this number is listed as being used for the IRS scam in June 2017. How does a scammer set up an 800 phone number without having it traced back to them? Why is this number still operational after a week of scam calls?

It's poor form to describe items as clear, obvious, trivial, 'of course', easy to see, and so on. To look too much into it: if the item is clearly​ understood then there's no need to identify it as clear. Clearly it's clear. It bothers me too.

It seems to me we need to write 'privacy in public' into our laws. We've reached a time where government possesses the power to track most citizens simultaneously. Businesses can do the same with everyone they come in contact with, and technology is cheap enough I believe an individual could do a decent job tracking people in his community. We all have to exist in public to some extent, I believe it's reasonable to demand more privacy be extended into public space.

I don't understand the extent of patents such as this. Does this mean if I have a shop with a public WiFi connection that I cannot block or redirect users from competitor's websites to my own without infringing on an Amazon patent? In general, I'm wondering does this patent obstruct me from implementing something similar?

My account is that the Internet is cluttered. Attempts to organize the clutter create piles of knowledge, but those piles contain a variety of simple and complex information, vague and detailed, accurate and creative, and still the piles themselves are not organized. We've learned to sort through piles of information to identify what we want (or something close enough). I think it's exhausting. I'd like to see a curated internet directory that can direct users to quality information as a librarian would. I believe that would stoke curiosity more than the current typical experience.

I've recently rediscovered how intelligible birds can be. I can't claim to understand what they're talking about, but I suggest to anyone with some free time to go outside at a time when the birds are active and to spend minutes focusing on their different calls. You really will begin to recognize the sounds and link them to behavior or events.

It does not seem to work for me on multiple machines. I just get an incomplete HTML file that ends abruptly after the "border-top" CSS line. There is no closing semicolon to the line, the file just ends in the middle of the style element.

My input doesn't seem to matter, but I used:

<html><body>Hello</body></html>

Password: abcdefg

I know I can buy so-so apples any time of year for very cheap. But I can also buy very delicious apples in season for a higher price. I can't say if the free market has spoiled my food unless I know the quality:price of apples in the past. I somewhat struggle with the option between poor:cheap and delicious:expensive, but overall I think it's best to have more choices and have confidence in making the decision for myself.

I'm fond of "eig" which in Matlab is the function to return eigenvectors and eigenvalues. My experience is that it's easier to recognize and remember abbreviations​ rather than acronyms.

Others considered the external appearance the manifestation of internal character. That philosophy is bound to overlook technical greatness, but it contributed to centuries of beautiful artwork in the daily objects of common people. Not devoting care to appearances is, perhaps unintentionally, a rejection of art and artistry. We have the opportunity to contribute to our descendents, the same way our ancestors left so many interesting things behind.

I'm interested to read about where people believe this progression of technology will take us in the near and far future. Are there thought out considerations of what type of world we are heading towards? Has Google revealed their vision of advertising for 2032? I don't mean this rhetorically, I genuinely want to know what vision there is for advertising in the future because I believe it's something we really ought to be thinking about and judging so we can make informed decision about what's best for us.

It's surprisingly difficult to find a pair of jeans that I really like, and I've taken to altering my own to make up for the shortcomings.

Nearly all have reduced the number of belt loops to 5, so I always add 2 more in the back on either side.

I've started seeing really short zippers, which is unfixable and best to avoid.

I've noticed a lot of ill fitting jeans bunch around the crotch or suffer from being a "cheap hotel". Also unfixable.

Most are not lined inside around the waist and pockets.

Sometimes the pocket hole is cut too high, making it awkward to put your hand in the pocket. Or worse, theres not enough give on the pocket to fit your hand in.

Buttons and buttonholes don't always match well, especially on a button fly. I think it's easier to enlarge the holes, but sometimes the buttons can be oddly small.

And of course measurements are unreliable, but that's true of all clothes.

These are nitpicky things, but I notice them all the time at all price ranges. I expect they're decisions made out of carelessness, or to save costs, or because that was the intend result. Cynically, I believe carelessness is the most common cause.

It seems to me that if an X-Ray scanner was stolen from an airport, that information would reasonably be considered SSI due to its relation to screening passenger luggage. I wouldn't be comfortable spreading news that stolen equipment is available, that there's a security vulnerability allowing equipment to be stolen, that ISIS is in possession of the stolen equipment, or any vulnerability assessments of the equipment. The unnamed source seemed convinced that any security decision was made to avoid scaring "mom from the midwest," but that comment appears short-sighted if anything more than conjecture.

Red Delicious apples are also $1/lb at the grocery store, while other varieties are $1.67/lb to $3/lb.

I've been using Logitech's solar powered keyboard (uses traditional cells) for years and I love the product. The biggest problem are:

1) doesn't charge well in low light

2) doesn't charge well from LED light

At first glance, the new approach looks to address one of those problems and possibly both.

In addition to complaining to the FCC individually, Mozilla is accepting signatures for an open letter:

https://advocacy.mozilla.org/en-US/net-neutrality

My first instinct is that the signal probably doesn't need to be ultrasound. In the same way that my phone will sometimes hear my car radio and falsely hear, "hello Google", I bet the beacon can just be planted on top of the signal and match filtered to a decent SNR. Similar to image steganography, it doesn't need to be perceptible to the listener. Compression issues would exist, but at least they wouldn't be fighting against the transmission hardware.

FCC chairman Pai has been very public about revoking Title II status. You can read his wolf in sheep's clothing speech from last week:

https://www.fcc.gov/document/chairman-pai-speech-future-inte...

It's a disappointment after Wheeler, but entirely expected, to see Pai fighting against net neutrality. I suggest reading the response by commissioners Clyburn and FTC commissioner McSweeny:

https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-cmmr-clyburn-ftc-cmmr-mcswe...

https://www.fcc.gov/news-events/headlines