{"id":3604,"date":"2013-08-03T03:50:04","date_gmt":"2013-08-03T07:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sj\/?p=3604"},"modified":"2023-06-30T21:55:15","modified_gmt":"2023-07-01T01:55:15","slug":"electricity-and-the-body-electric-robot-counterpoint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/2013\/08\/03\/electricity-and-the-body-electric-robot-counterpoint\/","title":{"rendered":"Electricity and the body electric [robot counterpoint]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><small><em>a quick aside while travelling, remembering also the Horowitz lab printer that printed a strange page while powered off, after I slept next to it<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n<p>I like to get the lightest machines I can, and slide them into thin bags. Currently using: a $170 Samsung chromebook, which suits me just fine. That&#8217;s both because I heartily support the concept &#8211; a 2-lb machine that can survive droptests [if not the XO&#8217;s dropkick-test!] &#8211; and because I tend to destroy drives.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, the faults tend to be electrical. And now that I have switched to SSD, these are harder to recover from. It seems to be controller death &#8212; and I still have a recent frotzed drive so I can find out, if I find someone who can debug Sandforce controllers. At any rate, I&#8217;ve lost two SSD&#8217;s on my Macbook Air in the past 2 months. All of which makes me even happier about one aspect of Chromebooks that some deplore: the lack of permanent on-disk apps or data.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, I wonder if it&#8217;s becoming easier to find customizable tempest cases for laptops &#8211; shielding works both ways!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>a quick aside while travelling, remembering also the Horowitz lab printer that printed a strange page while powered off, after I slept next to it I like to get the lightest machines I can, and slide them into thin bags. Currently using: a $170 Samsung chromebook, which suits me just fine. That&#8217;s both because I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1202,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[216,60576,78851],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fly-by-wire","category-gustatory","category-unfinished-draft"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iVvB-W8","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3604"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4611,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3604\/revisions\/4611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}