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How about lots of similarly painted cheap decoys!?

There was a Star Trek book (The Abode of Life?) that had a planet that where the communication was mostly confined to the planet. I think Uhura detected the planet from the backgro…

I trust that most batteries from iPhones are currently recycled through proper means either by Apple or third party firms. I don't know how most people will dispose of user replace…

"...When you see “libsodium,” you must context-switch from problem-solving mode to detective mode: “What does this do? Let me check the README. Ah, it’s a crypto library... " I wou…

The Lafayette HA460 6M AM transmitter used a 6CW4 Nuvistor as a preamp. Mine survived a lightning strike to my 6M beam, which melted the Gamma Match and destroyed the front end har…

"Tau Zero" by Poul Anderson Is it the same universal every time? If so, see you later alligator.

When we did it in high school (70's) we just used compound that had a long chain (soap?) and only one end dissolved in the water. It was very easy to measure and calculate the size…

This was very much spot on. As a middle level manager I tried to bring these in our Healthcare business, but got very little traction. The senior executives could not or would not …

There were two way pagers (receive and send). The receive only ones rarely interfered with medical equipment. But occasionally the local oscillators on receive only pagers would in…

Carter, I can see my house /s

I would be curious to know what proportion of PI time is spent preparing and getting approval for research grants for the various disciplines. Is it normal to have several differen…

The Mac Pro has ECC and is still sold. My iMac Pro has it as well.

Also https://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/products/rescond.pdf

Legal specifics or requirements aside for the moment, I for one would not feel obligated to contact anyone who stole my car to deal with these records. There are risks here that I …

The deep-dish is really a cheese pie and has nothing to do with pizza. The thin crust has the texture of the local newspapers. Square cut is only found in taverns and has been cook…

Do any of these hex editors handle RADIX50 (RAD50) ?

PLATO was the Concorde of its time. It showed how technology and social interaction would create new tools and cultures. Since ubiquitous computing and communication were far in th…

There is significant reverse commute and congestion from Chicago into the suburbs The travel times are typically longer than the conventional flow. Suburb to Suburb mass transit is…

If you use block multiples on media with defects to speed things the good data fills the buffer first, then the remainder is zero padded for the blocks in error. This shifts good d…

Agreed,using dd on media with flaws is not straight forward. See http://www.noah.org/wiki/Dd_-_Destroyer_of_Disks