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If you’re wondering, as I was, who Amateur Radio Digital Communications is and how they have money to make grants, it’s the foundation that sold a quarter of the 44.0.0.0/8 IPv4 ad…

FS.COM Limited (深圳市飞速创新技术股份有限公司, https://cn.fs.com/ ) was founded in Shenzhen in 2009. They’ve applied to be listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange; here’s the draft prospectus fro…

I liked An Answer for Linda (1961), which shows the work of outward toll operators using mark-sensing call tickets at traditional (3CL) cord switchboards. “Watch Billie closely, as…

You forgot SMPTE 170M, which is probably the definitive standard at this point: https://pub.smpte.org/doc/st170/20041130-pub/st0170-2004_sta...

RJ45S and RJ45M are ordering codes for so-called “registered jack” configurations for terminal connections to the U.S. telephone network. These codes were defined until 2000 in the…

Interesting. The left side of the slide at 15:43 in the video is definitely from page 27 of Symbol Sourcebook , but the detail of the ⌘ symbol doesn’t seem to be: not only could I …

Symbol Sourcebook would’ve been my first guess, too, but I just glanced through my copy (7th printing, 1977) and didn’t see the ⌘ symbol. The closest thing in the Graphic Form Sect…

The treaty returning sovereignty over the Chagos Archipelago to Mauritius, disestablishing the British Indian Ocean Territory, seems to be on track for ratification: https://common…

I’ve always thought of Kerberos as a centralized authentication system, to establish users’ identities. Authorization, in the sense of deciding to allow or deny a requested action …

Both links worked earlier, but they don’t work for me now, either. Anyway, the data sheet explains how the manufacturer tested the tape’s effectiveness with rats. The Wayback Machi…

The manufacturer’s product page, with a link to the MSDS: https://www.teraokatape.co.jp/english/products/class/class00... Data sheet describing the “rat prevention effect”: https:/…

DFSMS: Data Facility Storage Management Subsystem DFSMSdfp: Data Facility Product DFSMSdss: Data Set Services DFSMSrmm: Removable Media Manager DFSMShsm: Hierarchical Storage Manag…

I agree with the advice to ask a lawyer, but it’s sensible to be concerned with license agreements even in early-stage ventures that couldn’t enforce them. By establishing the comp…

Yes. “Freight collect” means the recipient pays the carrier for transportation; it implies nothing about payment for the goods. “COD” (collect on delivery) means the carrier collec…

I have the now-discontinued Sony DPT-RP1, which I use with Jan-Gerd Tenberge’s software ( https://github.com/janten/dpt-rp1-py ). It works well for reading PDF documents without th…

> It is not legal to operate a remote transmitter site without [...] 47 CFR § 73.1400(b) permits operation with “a self-monitoring or ATS-monitored and controlled transmission syst…

The website claims “Design, Construction and Operation according to US SUBSAFE.” I’d want that for my submarine, of course, but I wonder if it’s realistic. I’d understood that SUBS…

The author writes, about his purchases of computers, phones, and other hardware, “These are not recurring so I can't count them in.” Here in the U.S., many such items would be cons…

Those are the new Inside Macintosh series, published starting in 1992. SpInside Macintosh, the HyperCard stack from which the web page linked in this item was created, was produced…

If customers know what they’re buying, and unsubscribing is convenient, then I see no ethical problem with selling limited-term licenses—but as you mentioned, some potential custom…

On your specific text: - What if the AI is supplied by a vendor but runs on a computer system controlled by the user or by a third party? This could happen if the user doesn’t want…

Security was Microsoft’s stated reason for a similar change in 2017, when they removed the ability to insert EPS images into Microsoft Office documents: https://support.microsoft.c…

You could also use memorandum, journal, and ledger books, just as Pacioli taught in 1494, but why waste your limited time and attention on a problem for which you have a choice of …

In context, “foreign” means an entity registered in another state or country. See the FAQ: Can I register my out-of-state DAO? No. A certificate of authority for a foreign DAO cann…

> I'm pleased to see that SuperCard still exists! Just barely. There’s not a 64-bit version (for lack of Carbon libraries), much less one for ARM64. The developers suggest using a …