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This gem from the ABC news coverage has my mind 100% boggled: "711 has been affected by the outage … went in to buy a sandwich and a coffee and they couldn’t even open the till. Pe…

All with similar sounding names but vastly different purposes.

But sometimes not fast enough. IIRC, you can wait for a HPROCESS in Win32 with the WaitForSingleObject call but that is signaled when the application code finishes _not_ when the O…

Pre 9/11 I used to routinely fly a commercial route with no security screening process. There was once even an attempted hijacking and the (lack of) procedures remained. The grandp…

I used to drive this road to work. I am glad I don't any more. A fulcrum of human stupidity.

There was a PBS SpaceTime on the solar gravitational lens proposal not that long ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4d0EGIt1SPc

From this very page, a survey popped up for me. "How likely is it that you would recommend TechCrunch to a friend or colleague". Can't tell if satire or not.

Why would the rest of the world get a say in what the ADF is used for? isn't that precisely the point of a military?

As a Melbourne resident I really want a citation for this. Maybe the whole thing has been a nightmare and I will wake up shortly, who knows?

I couldn't give up induction now and I have used gas plenty. FWIW, my induction handles 4-11" and I had no pans that were not induction-compatible, but that might depend on where y…

There is no explicit call for caramalisation here. As the sibling post points out, that is not what you would normally do for Indian cuisine. I found it a bit amusing that the arti…

I don't think the Madhur Jaffrey recipe actually calls for caramelisation but I don't have the original in front of me. It would also use red onions and be done in a pan that is mo…

A ticket on the Ghan starts at around $2600, it's a luxury service ... it's not "rail" like you might suppose. It _is_ a weird sentence though. I guess they wanted to say its only …

And it was still the most insightful interview given that week.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Against_a_Dark_Background Paints a bleak picture of a civilization in this situation. Great book though.

All my walls are solid concrete. I recently had the house cabled up because the powerline stuff dropped multiple times a day for 5 minutes at a time. It was infuriating. The cablin…

Not sure about the machine linked in the article, but sometimes the operating system might prevent you from marking heap allocated pages as executable. However, in that case you ar…

If you are in the LA area you can take a docent guided tour of the Mount Wilson facilities, including the solar observatory mentioned in the article and the dome where Hubble obser…

I was in Grand Teton a few months ago. It has 110 private inholdings[1] and our guide talked a length about them. You drive by a few of them on the road north of Jackson Hole. Just…

>> U.S. citizens must use an arduous “new form implemented on the basis of reciprocity” that has 41 often-intrusive questions. I got a chuckle out of that. Reciprocity indeed! Apar…

Nothing generic about the Walt Disney Concert Hall either :) http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8c/Walt_Disn... But as you say: less well-known.

My experience is similar to yours, except it starts "I work at a game company...".

Another answer is in the movie "Never Let Me Go", one of the most bleak movies ever made.

Some services like Gmail allow you to sign out all other sessions from a session. So in the case of logging out from a unsecured computer, you logout as normal and then immediately…

There is an A-12 (trainer) at the California Science Center in LA. Apart from the shuttle I think it's the most interesting thing there... and it's outside next to the parking lot!…