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As the prosecutor is wont to petition, "Your Honor, the defense has opened the door to this line of questioning ..."
And indeed, I did. Guilty as charged. But, you're also right in suggesting that this is off-topic for this forum, although I fully appreciate your observations and comments, nonetheless.
FAC
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In recent CR interview of Sorkin, Sorkin brought out the "crazy" idea of one thing Apple can do with its $117 Billion in cash. Buy Sprint and enhance its network to support the last mile.
Why do first base coaches in baseball carry stop watches?
In major league baseball games, I have noticed that the first base coach routinely has a stop watch. Why? What in the world is he timing? How long it takes the first baseman to chew a pack of sunflower seeds? Seriously - why?
Smart-grid metering was vulnerable, says Dan Rueckert, associate VP for compliance, security and risk at consulting firm Black & Veatch.
"We've advised some utilities to stop metering activities until systems are upgraded, and we have stopped a few projects until it was done," Rueckert says. "There are a lot of checks and balances."
fac: the article should make it clear that the smart grid proper extends well beyond residential distribution systems, and includes the surveillance and supervision of all aspects of the gross electric grid, including generation, transmission, distribution, and the control rooms and data centers where each of the latter are managed or converge ...
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Yahoo News -- "An engineering professor, Behrokh Khoshnevis, at the University of Southern California, is really thinking big: He has figured out a way to build housing with a giant 3D printer. The apparatus, instead of being the size of your typical laser printer, would actually be somewhat bigger than the house it would build through a concrete layering system called Contour Crafting.
The professor explained the process in a speech at the TEDx conference, which you can watch above. (Start at 4:30 to see the animation demo.) In the video, the professor demonstrates how the machine lays down a concrete foundation, puts up walls, even inserts wiring and plumbing, and eventually constructs an entire building, which Professor Khoshnevis says can be completed in less than a day. (All that's left to add are doors and windows.) Robotics could even be used to add details like tiles, says the professor."
MP: The 3D printing revolution has just begun. We can expect hundreds and probably thousands of more examples like this in the future, as this amazing, innovative, game-changing technology revolutionizes manufacturing, construction, and our entire world.
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From Marathon Oil --"Safe, cost-effective refinements in hydraulic fracturing (also known as fracking), horizontal drilling and other innovations now allow for the production of oil and natural gas from tight shale formations that previously were inaccessible. This animated video introduces you to the proven techniques used to extract resources from these shale formations in a safe, environmentally responsible manner."
Great animation of the drilling technology that is responsible for America's revolutionary, game-changing, shale-based energy bonanza, the "energy equivalent of the Berlin Wall coming down."
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