WasteCoin

Is there life out there?

In only a few years with rudimentary capability to search for and identify “earth-like” planets, we find one that’s VERY similar. Given a few more centuries, how many will we find; and what are the odds that they will all be desolate of life. Time and space are so vast that claiming we’re the only […]

Is it really that hard?

With 2017 technology, you’d think it wouldn’t be that difficult to produce a safe automated system for trains running in a controlled environment. Good grief, I think I could cobble together a bunch of IoT sensors and do the job for <$1000/car easy. https://wtop.com/tracking-metro-24-7/2017/12/metro-acknowledges-smoother-rides-better-dont-expect-soon/

Major loss

Well I am BEYOND pissed off. The very expensive high speed/capacity memory card in my very expensive “pro-sumer” camera just failed. The Canon 70D gave absolutely no indication that there was a problem. It allowed me to see images in preview and then simply and silently didn’t write them to the bad card. I lost […]