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Indeed. I wish this was not so.

While I can get on board with restricting 2-stroke engines in most cases (there’s still many situations where there’s no viable substitutes), I’m puzzled how they expect to have ga…

Would you mind expanding on this? I've read both books and am curious what you mean.

I got from central Switzerland to Japan on about 10W on 20m once using JT65 or JT9 (I can't remember which). The antenna was a random length of wire tied a rock and tossed out of m…

I've purchased unregulated 80% lower receivers (they're only legally "a gun" if more than 80% of the machining work is complete. At or below 80%, they're just considered a chunk of…

How would Signal working with Microsoft to implement the Signal protocol in Skype somehow kill Signal? Signal (the organization) has worked with other companies, like Facebook and …

Plus the fact that as the source of electricity to the grid changes, so too does the cleanliness of all the vehicles. Sure, things today may be a wash in terms of overall emissions…

As much as I love LibreOffice -- and I prefer to use it whenever I can for several reasons -- the UI is just painfully awful. My university and one of the journals I publish in req…

I'm the same way with electronic components, though I tend to buy certain often-badly-counterfeited parts (e.g. logic-level MOSFETs, TTL-to-RS-232 converters, etc.) from reputable …

I use CrashPlan on Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X. Works great for me. Saved my bacon a few times (e.g. accidentally deleting my wedding photos, tax information, etc.). Worth checkin…

I run one of the many keyservers. I have various checks running regularly to make sure everything's fine, both on my own server, some selected other servers, and the pool in genera…

That's what password managers are for. Just remember the password for the manager, plus maybe one or two critical accounts (e.g. email) and you're good to go. Let the manager deal …

EGNOS and WAAS use the same frequencies and same protocol. They're essentially two implementations of the same thing. As far as a receiver is concerned, they are identical. My Garm…

NAT != stateful firewall.

pool.sks-keyservers.net is a round-robin pool pointing to several dozen synchronized keyservers (including the MIT server). It's usually the default option for most PGP clients. Se…

While I doubt neither the veracity of your claim nor your reaction to Gandi's actions (if such a situation happened to me, I would certainly not want to give a company my business …

I seem to remember that being the case with Network Solutions back in the early days. Gandi seems to hide your handle these days for certain domains if you have whois privacy enabl…