Oh crap, all of my programs are on 5.25" floppy disks.

How about FAIP, or Fast, Adaptive, and Insecure Protocol. We could have a lot of fun with this, since it's partially secure, Half FAS Protocol?

From the original article: “But they should be aware that Maryland requires, if you are diagnosed with sleep apnea, to voluntarily submit that information.”

That will discourage people from doing sleep studies and other treatment, at least in Maryland.

Like many courses, organic chemistry teaches you to think. You need to assimilate and organize material. You need self discipline to study. Also, organic chemistry helps you understand the "big picture" in certain cases. For example, Thalidomide has 2 stereoisomers. One helps with morning sickness, the other causes birth defects. Why not use the "good" one only? Because the chiral center on thalidomide has a hydrogen that is an alpha carbon to a carbonyl, which readily pops on and off under physiological conditions, resulting in a racemic mixture. (Thus, you wind up with a mixture of the beneficial and harmful forms) That's some of what you learn in organic chemistry. With all the new drugs coming out that have been "designed" to fit specific receptors. Understanding this matters, unless you want to practice medicine using a flowchart.

Organic Chemistry is a tough course. The most successful students study and go over the material every day, which takes a lot of time. Cramming doesn't work. When I took Organic, I could have easily gotten hundreds of signatures complaining about the grading. NYU just caved to the whiners.

Wait till someone asks the DMV, "What should I put for color, since it can change?" They will be absolutely clueless as to what they should do or say.

You're uploading them not just any website, but to FaceBook. Yeah, this is going to be great! They take such good care of personal data.

I clicked through a few articles and they don't really talk about range. I've got a small popup camper, about 1300 lbs empty. Will I be able to get to the campsite (3 hour drive) on 1 charge? Will I be able to get home without charging, or do I have to get an electric site or find a charging station? Right now they are talking about the styling, but if they want to sell these things, they need to talk about the capability so that different users can determine whether or not this truck will is going to work for them.

Although you include the quote, "Absolute statements are never true", your post is absolutely true. We are not the customers and Amazon will exploit this in ways we can't imagine.

Conversation overheard:

Alexa: Happy 95th birthday Mrs. Smith. Do you have grandkids? Tell me about them. Are any overseas? Do they like to party?

This all seems pretty creepy.

I read both of the articles, or at least what there was of them. There are just glossy brochures that don't really tell you much of anything. Some details would be nice.

Ted Stevens described the internet as a series of tubes (https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FSeries_of_tubes)
It looks like he was right!

I have a popup camper that I tow. It's the smallest one made by Jayco (8' bed) but it still weights about 1300 lbs. We also put two kayaks on top of the Torrent. How would all that affect mileage. I would be interested in some "real world" that reflects how people actually use their SUV's.
     

You are absolutely correct on this: "Yeah, or we "smart" adults could maybe realize these kinds of systems should not be remotely accessible." I have worked in a water filtration plant (as a chemist, not an operator) and was impressed at the level of monitoring being done by the operator. Many times, automated systems produce massive complacency. In another surprise, what Gualtieri said was correct. An overfeed for that short of a time would be quickly diluted to safe levels.

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It also probably takes half an hour to set it up.