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[We can broadly trust the US government] not to promote broken encryption to its own agencies.

The phrase "incandescent with rage" comes to mind when reading that order. A couple of choice quotes: To hide the truth, Vice-President of Finance, Alex Roman, outright lied under …

This capability is called "Trip To House Load".

This is potentially the first real black start of a grid with high renewable (solar/wind) penetration that I am aware of. The South Australia System Black in 2016 would count - SA …

You may be thinking of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pine_Gap

It's only just re-opened to visitors after an extended closure that began in the COVID times!

I think about $25, twice that in the Muppets Christmas Carol because they doubled the amount he offers for some reason.

I did actually do this the other day, to get some idea of how much Scrooge is offering to pay the boy in the street to go and buy the turkey for him at the end of A Christmas Carol…

Since your supply is alternating current, the electrons aren't net moving at all. The question isn't even well-formed. It's like playing tug-of-war and asking exactly which player …

They don't all produce separated plutonium, this also includes those that produce enriched uranium, which is also fissile. The three reasons to produce fissile material are weapons…

Fifteen nations that currently do so, if anyone is interested: Russia, United States, France, United Kingdom, Germany, Netherlands, China, Japan, Argentina, Brazil, India, Pakistan…

The terrible consequences are definitely an implied part of the meme, otherwise it's just someone messing about with some pieces of metal and screwdriver and isn't funny at all.

The existing ground-station ionosphere data mentioned has been used to detect missile launches: https://www.armscontrolwonk.com/archive/1216884/detecting-mi... I imagine you could …

The nomenclature "hanging up" a terminal even dates back to pulse-dialling landline phones where the receiver was physically hung up on a hook to activate a switch that opened the …

The ioctl works remotely as well, because ssh sends window size messages across the channel.

A rogue star having a close interaction with our solar system would be catastrophic enough, and we know there's lots of those in our galaxy.

The current operating requirements in South Australia mandate around 80MW of gas generation for system strength reasons. So even on last Saturday when "operational demand" in South…

There are 5 different businesses that own and operate the distribution network in different parts of Melbourne (AusNet, Jemena, Citipower, Powercor and United Energy). AusNet owns …

Load shedding is quite rare, I believe the only instance recently in Melbourne was on the 13th of February when several transmission towers carrying the Moorabool-Sydneham 500kV ci…

You could think of it in the sense of "saving money" - if you're a notorious spendthrift, the money hasn't actually disappeared, but it's of no use to you anymore.

The article posts one reason why they'd give it up: they feel the ongoing issue of the Chagos Islands is hurting their ability to get diplomatic support in other international matt…

Australia:

The explosive scanning is the thing where they pull some people out of line and run a wand over you and your gear, then put it into a machine and wait a few seconds for the analysi…